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Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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A Catechism of Astronomy | William Pinnock | 1833 | Whitaker, Treacher, and Co. | 15th | 72 | Paper | Pinnock's Catechisms series. | |
A Catechism of Astronomy | C. Irving | 1835 | Collins and Hannay | 5th | 90 | Paper | ||
A Companion to the Globes | R. T. Linnington | 1820 | G. & W. B. Whittaker | 2nd | 214 | Half Leather | Dedication page has William Talbot inscribed on it. | |
A Compendious Treatise on the Use of the Globes, and of Maps | John Lathrop | 1812 | J. W. Burditt and Co. | 1st | 183 | Leather | ||
A Compleat System of Astronomy | Charles Leadbetter | 1728 | J. Wilcox | 1st | 448 | Leather | Volume one of two. | |
A Dipper Full of Stars | Lou Williams | 1944 | Follett Publishing Company | 1st | 170 | Cloth | ||
A Field Book of the Stars | William Tyler Olcott | 1914 | G. P. Putnam's Sons | 2nd | 163 | Cloth | ||
A General Catalogue of 1290 Double Stars | S. W. Burnham | 1900 | The University of Chicago Press | 1st | 296 | Cloth | Publications of the Yerkes Observatory. Volume 1. | |
A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy, Vol II: Instruments and Practical Astronomy | George F. Chambers | 1890 | Oxford at the Clarendon Press | 4th | 558 | Cloth | Volume II. Frontispiece is a tipped in silver print of a telescope. The fold up chart is missing from the back cover. | |
A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy, Vol III: The Starry Heavens | George F. Chambers | 1890 | Oxford at the Clarendon Press | 4th | 384 | Cloth | Volume III | |
A Key to the Stars | R. Van Der Riet Woolley | 1935 | David McKay Company | 2nd | 143 | Cloth | ||
A Manual of Advanced Celestial Photography | Brad D. Wallace | 1988 | Cambridge University Press | 1st | 388 | Cloth | ||
A Manual of Celestial Photography | Edward Skinner King | 1931 | Eastern Science Supply Company | 2nd | 177 | Cloth | ||
A Manual of Celestial Photography | Edward Skinner King | 1931 | Eastern Science Supply Company | 1st | 177 | Cloth | ||
A Manual of Field Astronomy | Andrew H. Holt | 1917 | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | 1st | 128 | Cloth | Carl Lampland book plate - Lowell Observatory. | |
A Manual of Laboratory Astronomy | Harlan True Stetson | 1923 | Eastern Science Supply Company | 1st | 156 | Cloth | ||
A Manual of Laboratory Astronomy | Harlan True Stetson | 1935 | Eastern Science Supply Company | 6th | 124 | Paper | Volumes III through VII. | |
A Manual of Laboratory Astronomy (Volumes I - VII) | Harlan True Stetson | 1935 | Eastern Science Supply Company | 6th | 179 | Paper | Punched for a three ring binder. Seven volumes. | |
A Manual of Laboratory Astronomy, Volume II | Harlan True Stetson | 1937 | Eastern Science Supply Company | 33 | Paper | |||
A Manual of Laboratory Astronomy, Volume IV | Harlan True Stetson | 1935 | Eastern Science Supply Company | 23 | Paper | |||
A Manual of Laboratory Astronomy, Volume VI | Harlan True Stetson | 1935 | Eastern Science Supply Company | 27 | Paper | |||
A Manual of Practical Astronomy | William W. Campbell | 1891 | The Inland Press | 1st | 166 | Cloth | ||
A New Manual of the Elements of Astronomy | Henry Kiddle | 1868 | American Book Company | 2nd | 284 | Quarter Leather | ||
A New System of Astronomy in Question and Answer | Alva Clark | 1840 | R. Lockwood | 7th | 72 | Quarter Cloth | ||
A New System of Practical Astronomy | Thomas Spofford | 1836 | D. Felt & Co. | 2nd | 72 | Quarter Cloth | ||
A New Treatise on the Use of Globes | Thomas Keith | 1818 | Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green | 5th | 360 | Leather | ||
A New Treatise on the Use of Globes and Practical Astronomy | J. Wallace | 1812 | Smith & Forman | 1st | 512 | Leather | ||
A Photographic History of Mars 1905 to 1961 | Earl C. Slipher | 1962 | United States Air Force | 1st | 168 | Cloth | ||
A Photographic Study of the Brighter Planets | Earl C. Slipher | 1964 | Lowell Observatory | 1st | 125 | Cloth | ||
A Popular History of Astronomy During the 19th Century | Agnes Mary Clerke | 1887 | Macmillan and Company | 2nd | 502 | Cloth | Front cover board is a bit loose. Frontispiece has a cracked corner. Both tipped in silver prints are present, Orion Nebula on the frontispiece, and Jupiter/Saturn on the title page. Text block is cracked at page 336, otherwise a tight binding. | |
A popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century | Agnes Mary Clerke | 1893 | Adam and Charles Black | 3rd | 573 | Cloth | Has tipped in silver photographs. Several loose pages, including title page. Cover loose. Plate IV is setached and missing the bottom 1/4 of the plate. The frontispiece is a tipped in silver print of the Orion Nebula. The title page has a tipped in silver print of Jupiter and Saturn. | |
A Primary Astronomy for Schools and Families | Hiram Mattison | 1853 | F. J. Huntington, and Mason & Law | 1st | 2nd printing | 168 | Quarter Leather | |
A Short Course In Astronomy | Henry Kiddle | 1871 | Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. | 2nd | 190 | Cloth | ||
A System of Astronomy | John Vose | 1827 | Jacob B. Moore | 1st | 252 | Quarter Leather | ||
A Treatise on Astronomical Spectroscopy | Dr. J. Scheiner | 1898 | Ginn and Company | 2nd | 482 | Quarter Leather | ||
A Treatise on Astronomy | Sir John F. W. Herschel | 1834 | Carey, Lea, & Blanchard | 2nd | 396 | Quarter Cloth | ||
A Treatise on Astronomy | Sir John F. W. Herschel | 1835 | Carey, Lea, & Blanchard | 3rd | 391 | Cloth | ||
A Treatise on Astronomy | Elias LL.D. Loomis | 1865 | Harpers and Brothers Publishers | 1st | 355 | Leather | ||
A Treatise on Astronomy | H. N. Robinson | 1869 | Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co. | 2nd | 5th impression | 413 | Leather | |
A Treatise on Astronomy | H. N. Robinson | 1874 | Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. | 3rd | 7th impression | 413 | Leather | |
A Treatise on Astronomy | Hugh Godfray | 1886 | Macmillan and Company | 4th | 320 | Cloth | ||
A Treatise on Astronomy, Spherical and Physical with Astronomical Problems | William A. Norton | 1871 | John Wiley and Son, Publishers | 4th | 443 | Cloth | 115 pages of tables and 15 plates. | |
A View of the Heavens | Rev. Amos Pettengill | 1826 | Nathan Whiting | 1st | 82 | Paper | ||
Abrege D`Astronomie | Jerome Lalande | 1795 | Firmin Didot | 2nd | 400 | Half Cloth | French language. | |
Adler Planetarium and Astronomical Museum of Chicago | Philip Fox | 1933 | The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. | 62 | Paper | |||
American Astronomical Society - Constitution, By-laws, and List of Members | 1927 | American Astronomical Society | 20 | Paper | ||||
Among the Stars | Agnes Giberne | 1885 | Seeley & Co. | 2nd | 310 | Cloth | ||
An Account of the Revd. John Flamsteed, The First Astronomer-Royal | Francis Baily | 1835 | William Clowes and Sons | 1st | 672 | Half Leather | ||
An Elementary Treatise on Astronomy | William A. Norton | 1839 | Wiley & Putnam | 1st | 485 | Leather | ||
An Elementary Treatise on Astronomy | William A. Norton | 1845 | Wiley & Putnam | 2nd | 479 | Leather | ||
An Elementary Treatise on Astronomy | John Gummere | 1846 | E. C. & J. Biddle | 3rd | 468 | Leather | Repairs to torn foldouts. | |
An Introduction to Astronomy | John Bonnycastle | 1786 | J. Johnson | 1st | 431 | Leather | ||
An Introduction to Astronomy | Denison Olmsted | 1850 | Robert B. Collins | 8th | 441 | Leather | Two parts in one volume. | |
An Introduction to Astronomy | Denison Olmsted | 1866 | Collins & Brother | 3rd | 218 | Leather | ||
An Introduction to Astronomy | Robert H. Baker | 1940 | D. Van Nostrand Company | 2nd | 6th printing | 315 | Cloth | |
An Introduction to Astronomy | Robert H. Baker | 1946 | D. Van Nostrand Company | 4th | 4th printing | 461 | Cloth | |
An Introduction to the Study of Spectrum Analysis | W. Marshall Watts | 1904 | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 1st | 325 | Cloth | ||
An Introduction to The Study of Variable Stars | Caroline E. Furness | 1915 | Houghton Mifflin Company | 1st | 327 | Cloth | ||
![]() | Johann Elert Bode | 1801 | Christian Friedrich Himburg | 7th | 632 | Half Leather | All of the star maps are present but they were cut out of the book by a previous owner. | |
Anleitung zur Kenntniss des gestirnten Himmels | Johann Elert Bode | 1806 | Nicolaischen Buchhandlung | 8th | 668 | Quarter Leather | Maps missing. Frontispiece missing. | |
Annalen Sternwarte in Leiden | Dr. F. Kaiser | 1872 | Martinus Nijhoff | 1st | 273 | Paper | German language. A number of nice Mars observations. Annals of the observatory in Leiden. | |
Annals of the Lowell Observatory - Observations of the Planet Mars - Volume III | Percival Lowell | 1905 | Houghton Mifflin Company | 1st | 293 | Paper | Ex-library book. Volume III of the Annals of The Lowell Observatory. 60 page supplement. | |
Annals of the Lowell Observatory - Vol I | Percival Lowell | 1898 | Houghton Mifflin Company | 1st | 391 | Paper | ||
Annals of the Lowell Observatory, in 3 volumes | Percival Lowell | 1898 | Houghton Mifflin Company | 1st | 1207 | Cloth | Volume 1: 391 pages, published in 1898 by the Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Volume 2: 523 pages, published in 1900 by Cambridge University Press. Volume 3: 293 pages, published in 1905. | |
Astrographic Catalogue 1900 | Sir Frank Watson Dyson | 1929 | His Majesty's Stationary Office | 1st | 189 | Cloth | ||
Astronomiæ Physicæ & Geometricæ Elementa | David Gregory | 1726 | Apud Marcum-Michaelem Bousquet & Socios | 2nd | 752 | Leather | Gregory's principal work. It was the first text-book composed on gravitational principles, and remodeling astronomy in conformity with physical theory. Newton thought highly of the book, and communicated, for insertion in it, his' lunar theory ', long the guide of practical astronomers in determining the moon's motions. | |
Astronomical and Meteorological Observations | Vice-Admiral S.C. Rowan | 1885 | Government Printing Office | 1st | 424 | Cloth | Washington Astronomical and Meteorological Observations - Volume 29. Observations made in 1882. | |
Astronomical Photography | Gérard de Vaucouleurs | 1961 | Faber and Faber LTD | 1st | 137 | Cloth | ||
Astronomical Photography at the Telescope | Thomas Rackham | 1959 | Faber and Faber LTD | 1st | 232 | Cloth | ||
Astronomical Spectroscopy | A. D. Thackeray | 1961 | Eyre and Spottiswoode | 1st | 256 | Cloth | ||
Astronomie Enseignée En 22 Leçons | M. C. | 1835 | Audin | 6th | 438 | Quarter Leather | ||
Astronomie Populaire | Camille Flammarion | 1884 | C. Marpon et E. Flammarion | 4th | 839 | Cloth | ||
Astronomy | Richard Green Parker | 1859 | Allman and Son | 79 | Cloth | |||
Astronomy | J. A. Gillet | 1882 | Potter, Ainsworth & Co. | 1st | 405 | Cloth | ||
Astronomy | Simon Newcomb | 1883 | Henry Holt and Company | 4th | 512 | Cloth | ||
Astronomy | Henry Norris Russell | 1926 | Ginn and Company | 1st | 932 | Cloth | ||
Astronomy | Forest Ray Moulton | 1931 | The MacMillan Company | 1st | 549 | Cloth | ||
Astronomy | John Charles Duncan | 1935 | Harpers and Brothers Publishers | 3rd | 448 | Cloth | ||
Astronomy | William Marshall Smart | 1937 | Oxford University Press | 1st | 158 | Cloth | ||
Astronomy and General Physics | Rev William Whewell | 1836 | Carey, Lea, & Blanchard | 3rd | 236 | Cloth | American edition. | |
Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology | Rev William Whewell | 1839 | William Pickering | 5th | 381 | Leather | ||
Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles | James Ferguson | 1778 | W. Strahan, J. Rivirgton and Sons | 6th | 513 | Leather | ||
Astronomy for All | Bruno H. Bürgel | 1911 | Cassell and Company, Ltd. | 1st | 352 | Cloth | Art Nouveau cover. Translated from German by Stella Bloch. Some bubbling of the cloth on the front cover and some staining from newspaper clippings. | |
Astronomy for Amateurs | Camille Flammarion | 1904 | D. Appleton & Co. | 2nd | 345 | Cloth | Translated to English by Frances A. Welby. | |
Astronomy for Beginners | Francis Fellowes | 1836 | F. J. Huntington & Co. | 1st | 96 | Quarter Cloth | ||
Astronomy for Beginners | Hereward Carrington | 1925 | Haldeman-Julius Company | 1st | 60 | Paper | Printed in Girard, Kansas. Stapled binding. | |
Astronomy for Everybody | Simon Newcomb | 1902 | Garden City Publishing Co., Inc. | 1st | 333 | Cloth | ||
Astronomy for Schools | R. W. Haskins | 1841 | Robinson, Pratt & Co. | 1st | 324 | Leather | ||
Astronomy for Schools and General Readers | Isaac Sharpless | 1892 | J. B. Lippincott Company | 4th | 315 | Cloth | ||
Astronomy from a Dipper | Eliot C. Clarke | 1909 | Houghton Mifflin Company | 1st | Fifteenth impression | 66 | Cloth | |
Astronomy Lecture Notes | anonymous | 1916 | anonymous | 1st | Cloth | Cloth bound lectures notes. Typed and hand written. Two volumes. First volume contains notes from 1912 and 1913. Second volume contains notes from 1916. | ||
Astronomy of the 20th Century | Otto Struve | 1962 | Macmillan and Company | 1st | 544 | Cloth | Has dust jacket. Red ink marks on title page. The dust jacket is chipped and has a lot of scuff marks. | |
Astronomy To-Day | Théophile Moreux | circa 1926 | E. P. Dutton and Company | 1st | 256 | Cloth | ||
Astronomy With an Opera Glass | Garrett P. Serviss | 1901 | D. Appleton & Co. | 8th | 158 | Cloth | ||
Astronomy Without Mathematics | Edmund Beckett Denison | 1867 | Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge | 4th | 330 | Cloth | ||
Astronomy, The Sun and His Family | Julia MacNair Wright | 1914 | The Penn Publishing Company | 1st | 6th impression | 203 | Cloth | |
Astrophysics of Gaseous Nebulae | Donald E. Osterbrock | 1974 | W. H. Freeman and Company | 1st | 251 | Cloth | ||
Bebodde Verdener | Sigurd Einbu | 1928 | H. Aschehoug & Co. | 1st | 134 | Cloth | ||
Betrachtung Der Gestirne Und Des Weltgebäudes | Johann Elert Bode | 1823 | Nicolaischen Buchhandlung | 2nd | 294 | Hardbound | Hardbound in heavy paper boards with faux-leather design. Foldout star chart attached to the inside of the back cover. | |
Between the Planets | Fletcher G. Watson | 1941 | The Blakiston Company | 1st | 222 | Cloth | ||
Beyond the Milky Way | George Ellery Hale | 1926 | Charles Scribner's Sons | 2nd | 105 | Quarter Cloth | ||
Beyond the Observatory | Harlow Shapley | 1967 | Charles Scribner's Sons | 1st | 222 | Cloth | ||
Biography of Percival Lowell | Lawrence Lowell | 1935 | The MacMillan Company | 1st | 212 | Cloth | ||
Brief Biography and Unparalleled Discoveries of T. J. J. See | W. L. Webb | 1913 | Thos. P. Nichols & Son Co. | 1st | 298 | Cloth | The actual author was probably See himself. | |
Catalogue of 9842 Stars | Thomas William Backhouse | 1911 | Hills and Company | 1st | 186 | Cloth | ||
Catalogue of Meteorites | G. T. Prior | 1953 | William Clowes and Sons | 2nd | 432 | Cloth | ||
Celestial Motions A Handy Book of Astronomy | William Thynne Lynn | 1884 | Edward Stanford | 2nd | 78 | Cloth | ||
Celestial Scenery | Rev. Thomas Dick | 1838 | E. and L. Merriam | 1st | 390 | Cloth | ||
Christophori Clavii Bambergensis ex Societate Iesv In sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco commentarius | Christoph Clavius | 1591 | Apud Ioan Baptiftam | 1st | 5th impression? | 483 | Vellum | The title page has been repaired. |
![]() | Claudius Ptolemaeus | 1551 | Henrich Petri | 1st | 447 | Leather | 11 pages have restoration to missing portions of the pages. The book has been rebacked. The northern and southern star maps are not present. | |
Collection Complette des Oeuvres de Mr. de Voltaire | Voltaire | 1757 | 1st | 2nd impression | 328 | Leather | ||
Comets and the Sun | John W. Weir | 1927 | Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd. | 1st | 72 | Cloth | ||
Comets Creators and Destroyers | David H. Levy | 1998 | Touchstone | 1st | 256 | Paper | ||
Consider the Heavens | Mrs. William Steadman Aldis | 1895 | The Religious Tract Society | 1st | 224 | Cloth | ||
Considerations on the Substance of the Sun | Augustus Brevoort Woodward | 1801 | Way and Groff | 1st | 89 | Leather | Front end paper is partially loose. Damage to the top of the spine. | |
Constitution De L'espace Celeste | G.-A. Hirn | 1889 | Gauthier-Villars & Fils | 1st | 332 | Half Leather | ||
Contributions to Solar Physics | Norman Lockyer | 1874 | Macmillan and Company | 1st | 676 | Cloth | ||
Cosmos - 5 volumes | Alexander Von. Humbolt | 1864 | Henry G. Bohn | 1st | Later impression of the English edition. | 1843 | Half Leather | English translation. In five volumes. Originally published in German between 1845 and 1862. Volume five was completed posthumously. |
De Mercure à Pluton. Planètes et satellites | Pierre Humbert | 1937 | Albin Michel | 1st | 171 | Quarter Leather | ||
![]() | Nicolaus Copernicus | 1973 | Tancsics | 1st | 196 | Cloth | Miniature facsimile edition. | |
Definitions and Elementary Observations in Astronomy | Samuel R. Gummere | 1830 | Kimber and Sharpless | 138 | Quarter Leather | The World Catalog only lists six copies in libraries located within the US. The inscription reads "Sarah P Pancoast, Westtown, Seminary 1837." The Westtown Seminary was probably a Quaker school. This school appears to still be around today. | ||
Der wohlerfahrene Kalendermann, nebst einer neuen populären Astronomie | Ulm Friedrich Ebner | 1849 | Ulm Friedrich Ebner | 1st | 280 | Quarter Leather | German language. | |
Der Wunderbau des Weltalls oder Populäre Astronomie | J. H. Mädler | 1879 | E. Bichteler & Co. | 7th | 748 | Cloth | In two volumes. The second volume contains diagrams, maps and tables. Very ornate covers. Light foxing to the 2nd volume. Each volume has a bookplate from the original owner. | |
Destination Mars | Martin Caidin | 1972 | Doubleday & Company, Inc. | 1st | 295 | Cloth | Dust jacket is chipped. | |
Determination of Orbits of Comets and Asteroids | Russell Tracy Crawford | 1930 | McGraw-Hill Book Company | 1st | 233 | Cloth | ||
Diesterwegs Populare Himmelskunde | Dr. M. Wilhelm Meyer | 1890 | Derlag bon Emil Goldjdjmidt | 1st | 425 | Quarter Leather | ||
Discovery of the Universe | Gérard de Vaucouleurs | 1957 | Faber and Faber LTD | 1st | 328 | Cloth | ||
Earth, Moon and Planets | Fred Whipple | 1941 | The Blakiston Company | 1st | Printing of Feb. 1946 | 293 | Cloth | |
Easy Star Lessons | Richard A. Proctor | 1881 | Chatto and Windus | 1st | 239 | Cloth | ||
Ecce Coelum | Rev. E. F. Burr | 1870 | Noyes, Holmes, and Company | 10th | 198 | Cloth | ||
![]() | William Phillips | 1818 | James Eastburn and Co. Literary Books | 1st | 254 | Leather | ||
Elementary Astronomy | WM. Emmons | 1866 | WM. S. Falls | 2nd | 83 | Quarter Cloth | Cover is detached and cloth of the spine torn. Paper on front cover is chipped. | |
Elementary Astronomy | Otto Struve | 1959 | Oxford University Press | 1st | 2 | 396 | Cloth | |
Elements of Astronomy | John Brinkley | 1819 | R.E. Mercier | 2nd | 328 | Half Leather | This book has several pages of handwritten notes that are in a very nice cursive style. The handwriting could almost be said to be perfect. | |
Elements of Astronomy | Hervey Wilbur | 1834 | Dorr, Howland, & Co. | 4th | 144 | Paper | Water stains. Tear and hole in title page. | |
Elements of Astronomy | John H. Wilkins | 1834 | Hillard, Gray & Co. | 2nd | 10th impression | 152 | Quarter Leather | |
Elements of Astronomy | John H. Wilkins | 1835 | Hillard, Gray & Co. | 2nd | 11th impression | 152 | Quarter Leather | |
Elements of Astronomy | John Brocklesby | 1857 | Farmer, Brace & Co. | 3rd | 324 | Quarter Leather | ||
Elements of Astronomy | Selim H. Peabody | 1869 | Wilson, Hinkle & Co. | 1st | 336 | Leather | ||
Elements of Astronomy | Norman Lockyer | 1883 | D. Appleton & Co. | 12th | 312 | Quarter Leather | ||
Elements of Astronomy | Elias LL.D. Loomis | 1886 | Harpers and Brothers Publishers | 254 | Leather | |||
Elements of Descriptive Astronomy | Herbert Alonzo Howe | 1897 | Silver, Burdett and Company | 1st | 340 | Cloth | ||
Elements of Natural Philosophy. IV. Spherical Astronomy | W. H. C. Bartlett | 1855 | A. S. Barnes and Company | 1st | 465 | Quarter Leather | ||
Entretiens sur La Pluralite des Mondes | Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle | 1701 | Chez Pierrae Mortier | 11th | 140 | Leather | ||
Essays on Astronomy | Richard A. Proctor | 1872 | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 1st | 401 | Cloth | ||
Evolution of Stars and Galaxies | Walter Baade | 1963 | Harvard University Press | 1st | 321 | Cloth | Edited by Celia Payne-Gaposchkin. Dust jacket present. | |
Evolution of the Stellar Systems - volumes I and II | Thomas See | 1896 | The Nichols Press | 1st | 993 | Cloth | ||
Exploring Mars | Ray Gallant | 1956 | Garden City Books | 1st | 61 | Cloth | ||
Exploring Mars | Ray Gallant | 1956 | Garden City Books | 1st | 61 | Cloth | Second copy. | |
Exploring Space with a Camera | Edgar M. Cortright | 1968 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 2nd | 214 | Cloth | ||
Exploring the Moon Through Binoculars and Small Telescopes | Ernest H. Cherrington | 1969 | McGraw-Hill Book Company | 1st | 206 | Cloth | ||
Exploring the Moon Through Binoculars and Small Telescopes | Ernest H. Cherrington | 1969 | Dover | 229 | Paper | |||
Familiar Lessons on Astronomy | Mrs. L. N. Fowler | 1855 | Fowlers & Wells | 1st | 5th impression | 165 | Cloth | |
Fifty Famous Sky Stories | Caroline Silver June | 1925 | Albert Whitman Company | 2nd | 126 | Cloth | ||
First Book in Astronomy | Rev. J. L. Blake | 1845 | Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln | 6th | 120 | Cloth | Homemade dust jacket. | |
![]() | Mary E. Byrd | 1914 | The Rumford Press | 1st | 126 | Cloth | ||
Flights From Chaos | Harlow Shapley | 1930 | Whittlesey House | 1st | 168 | Cloth | ||
Flowers of the Sky | Richard A. Proctor | 1879 | Strahan and Company Limited | 1st | 295 | Half Leather | Second copy. | |
Flowers of the Sky | Richard A. Proctor | 1879 | Strahan and Company Limited | 1st | 295 | Cloth | Front end paper loose. Third copy. Purchased with 11 other books. | |
Flowers of the Sky | Richard A. Proctor | 1889 | Chatto and Windus | 295 | Cloth | |||
Fourteen Weeks in Descriptive Astronomy | Joel Dorman Steele | 1869 | A. S. Barnes and Company | 2nd | 338 | Cloth | ||
Fourteen Weeks in Descriptive Astronomy | Joel Dorman Steele | circa 1880 | A. S. Barnes and Company | 9th | 336 | Cloth | Former University of Kansas Library copy. Taped binding. Star chart detached but present. | |
Galactic Nebulae and Interstellar Matter | Jean Dufay | 1957 | Hutchinson's Scientific and Technical Publications | 2nd | 352 | Cloth | ||
Galaxies | Otto Struve | 1962 | Brookhaven National Laboratory | 13 | Paper | |||
Geography of the Heavens and Class Book of Astronomy Accompanied by a Celestial Atlas | Elijah H. Burritt | 1849 | Huntington and Savage | 5th | 11th impression | 305 | Quarter Leather | |
Globules | Bart Bok | Steward Observatory | 28 | Paper | ||||
Goto Hakubutsu Shinpen | Benjamin Hobson | circa 1870 | anonymous | 57 | Paper | Japanese woodblock print book. Volume 2 of 3 volume set of science books written by the missionary Benjamin Hobson. | ||
Gregoriana Correctio Illustrata Ampliata et a Conviciis Vindicata | R. P. Melitone | 1743 | Sumptibus Societatis, et Veneunt Tolosae | 1st | 285 | Leather | Latin text on the Gregorian calendar. A couple of worm holes. | |
Guy's Elements of Astronomy | Joseph Guy | 1832 | Key, Mielke & Biddle | 5th | 136 | Leather | ||
Half Hours with the Telescope | Richard A. Proctor | 1868 | Robert Hardwicke | 1st | 109 | Cloth | ||
Handbook of Astronomy | Dionysius Lardner | 1867 | James Walton | 3rd | 528 | Leather | ||
Heliometer Observations for Determination of Stellar Parallax | David Gill | 1893 | Eyre and Spottiswoode | 1st | 1st printing | 167 | Cloth | |
Heroes of Science. Astronomers | E. J. C. Morton | 1882 | Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge | 1st | 341 | Cloth | ||
Highlights of Astronomy | Walter Bartky | 1935 | The University of Chicago Press | 1st | 280 | Cloth | ||
Histoire Du Ciel | Camille Flammarion | 1880 | J. Hetzel | 464 | Cloth | |||
Historie des Idees et des Recherches Sur le Soleil | H. Deslandres | 1906 | Gauthier-Villars | 1st | 147 | Half Leather | ||
Hours with a Three Inch Telescope | Capt. W. M. Noble | 1887 | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 2nd | 122 | Cloth | ||
In The Sky Garden | Lizzie W. Champney | 1877 | Lockwood, Brooks, and Company | 1st | 211 | Cloth | ||
Institutes of Natural Philosophy, Theoretical and Practical | William Enfield | 1824 | Cummings, Hillard, & Co. | 4th | 297 | Leather | ||
Institutio Astronomica de usu Globorum & Sphaerarum Caelestium ac Terrestrium | Willem Janszoom Blaeu | 1690 | Joannis Wolters | 243 | Vellum | This was a popular primer on astronomy originally published in 1618. It covers both Ptolemaic and Copernican astronomy. This book was originally printed in the Dutch language, and was translated to Latin in 1634. The author began his carreer as an assistant to Tycho Brahe, after which he became a maker of instruments and globes, then later an engraver and printer. A previous owner's signature, dated Feb. 12, 1706, is on the front flyleaf. The book is in two parts, the first part being Ptolemaic astronomy, while the second part is Copernican astronomy. The book was purchased through the first ever ABAA virtual book fair. | ||
Introductio Ad Veram Astronomiam Seu Lectiones Astronomicae | John Keill | 1718 | E Theatre Sheldoniano | 1st | 495 | Casewrap | ||
Introduction to Astronomy | Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposchkin | 1954 | Prentice Hall, Inc. | 1st | 3rd printing | 508 | Cloth | |
Introduction to Practical Astronomy | Dinsmore Alter | 1933 | Thomas Y. Crowell Company | 1st | 136 | Cloth | ||
Itim le-Vinah | R. Joseph ben Moses Aaron Ginzberg | 1886 | Isaac Goldman | 1st | 432 | Cloth | Hebrew language. This book explains how to make calculations for the Jewish calendar. | |
John Couch Adams and the Discovery of Neptune | Sir Harold Spencer Jones | 1947 | Cambridge University Press | 1st | 43 | Paper | ||
Kosmos | Willem De Sitter | 1932 | Harvard University Press | 1st | 138 | Cloth | ||
Kurzer Entwurf der Astronomischen Wissenschaften | Johann Elert Bode | 1794 | Himburg | 1st | 455 | Half Leather | ||
La Geografia Astronomica | Gerolamo Da Passano | 1870 | Sordo-muti | 6th | 352 | Quarter Leather | ||
La Geografia Astronomica | Cav. Gerolamo Da-Passano | 1870 | R. I. De Sordo-Muti | 6th | 339 | Quarter Leather | ||
La Planéte Mars | Camille Flammarion | 1892 | Gauthier-Villars | 1st | 1212 | Cloth | Volume I (1892) and Volume II (1909). | |
![]() | Camille Flammarion | 1892 | Gauthier-Villars | 1st | 608 | Cloth | Volume I. The color plates at page 296 are missing. | |
La Planéte Mars | Camille Flammarion | 1909 | Gauthier-Villars | 1st | 600 | Cloth | Volume 2. Signed by the author's second wife, Gabrielle. A postcard showing the author and his second wife seated while talking to each other is taped to the series title page. The postcard is dated Jan. 30, 1946 and has a note written by Gabrielle to the previous owner of this book. The half title page is signed by a previous owner "Ensign a. b. Meinel, USNR, NAVTECHMISEU Paris, 23 April 45". NAVTECHMISEU was a US Navy intelligence unit that was formed in December 1944, whose mission was to exploit German science and technology for the benefit of the Navy Department's technical bureaus. | |
La Pluralite des Mondes Habités | Camille Flammarion | 1872 | Gauthier-Villars | 17th | 475 | Half Leather | ||
Laboratory Astronomy | Robert Wheeler Wilson | 1905 | Ginn and Company | 2nd | 189 | Cloth | ||
Laboratory Manual in Astronomy | Mary E. Byrd | 1899 | Ginn and Company | 1st | 273 | Cloth | ||
Le Macchie Solari | Galileo Galilei | 1655 | HH. del Dozza | 2nd | 156 | Quarter Leather | Modern binding. Textually complete, but lacking the last 2 of the ten leaves of woodcuts Disegni delle Machie del Sole, showing sunspots observed by Galileo in June 1612, i.e. leaves G5-6 (forming pp. 57-60). | |
Les Étoiles Essai D'astronomie Siderale | P. A. Secchi | 1879 | Librairie Germer Bailliére | 1st | 208 | Cloth | French Language. Volume 1 of 2. | |
Les Terres Du Ciel | Camille Flammarion | 1884 | Marpon-Flammarion | 3rd | 773 | Cloth | ||
Lessons in Astronomy | Charles Augustus Young | 1901 | Ginn and Company | 6th | 366 | Cloth | ||
Lessons in Astronomy | Charles Augustus Young | 1925 | Ginn and Company | 12th | 420 | Cloth | ||
Letters on Astronomy | Denison Olmsted | 1842 | Thomas H. Webb & Co. | 1st | 3rd printing | 419 | Cloth | Professionally rebacked, preserving the original spine material. |
Letters on Astronomy | Denison Olmsted | 1855 | Harpers and Brothers Publishers | 3rd | 427 | Cloth | ||
Lines of the Chemical Elements in Astronomical Spectra | Paul Willard Merrill | 1956 | Carnegie Institution of Washington | 1st | 167 | Cloth | ||
![]() | Alfred Russel Wallace | 1903 | McClure, Phillips & Co. | 1st | 326 | Cloth | ||
Mariner-Mars 1969: A Preliminary Report | anonymous | 1969 | U.S. Government Printing Office | 1st | 145 | Paper | ||
Mars | Percival Lowell | 1895 | Houghton Mifflin Company | 1st | 217 | Cloth | Water stains to the cover and the frontispiece is loose. Mars map has two tears. | |
Mars | William H. Pickering | 1921 | Richard G. Badger | 1st | 173 | Cloth | ||
Mars 3-D | Jim Bell | 2008 | Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. | 1st | 2nd printing | 148 | Casewrap | |
Mars and Its Canals | Percival Lowell | 1906 | The MacMillan Company | 1st | 393 | Cloth | ||
Mars and Its Canals | Percival Lowell | 1907 | The MacMillan Company | 1st | Third Thousand | 393 | Cloth | |
Mars As The Abode Of Life | Percival Lowell | 1908 | The MacMillan Company | 1st | 288 | Cloth | ||
Mars as Viewed by Mariner 9 | anonymous | 1976 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 2nd | 225 | Cloth | ||
Mars Beckons | John Noble Wilford | 1990 | Knopf | 244 | Cloth | |||
Mars Beckons | John Noble Wilford | 1990 | Knopf | 1st | 244 | Quarter Cloth | Top corner of front board damaged. Dust jacket present. Second copy. | |
Mars The Mystery Unfolds | Peter Cattermole | 2001 | Oxford University Press | 1st | 186 | Cloth | ||
Mars, The New Frontier, Lowell's Hypothesis | Wells Alan Webb | 1956 | Fearon Publishers | 1st | 141 | Cloth | ||
Memoir on a Trans-Neptunian Planet | Percival Lowell | 1915 | Thos. P. Nichols & Son Co. | 1st | 105 | Paper | In the original box provided by Percival Lowell. | |
Memoir on a Trans-Neptunian Planet | Percival Lowell | 1915 | Thos. P. Nichols & Son Co. | 1st | 105 | Cloth | Bound with "Memoir on Saturn's Rings". Stamped on the first page "J NORMAN LOCKYER, K.C.B., F.R.S.". Missing the original paper covers. Contains nine plates after the text. This is a second copy. | |
Memoir on Saturn's Rings | Percival Lowell | 1915 | Thos. P. Nichols & Son Co. | 1st | 22 | Cloth | Formorly property of Dr. Victor M. Blanco. Bound with "Memoir on a Trans-Neptunian Planet". | |
Merveilles Celestes | Camille Flammarion | 1878 | Librairie Hachette Et C | 6th | 382 | Cloth | ||
Mid-Edo Period Japanese Astronomy | anonymous | circa 1750 | anonymous | 63 | Paper | Japanese woodblock print book. | ||
Modern Cosmogonies | Agnes Mary Clerke | 1905 | Adam and Charles Black | 1st | 287 | Cloth | ||
Monograph of the Central Parts of the Nebula of Orion | Edward Singleton Holden | 1882 | U.S. Government Printing Office | 1st | 230 | Cloth | ||
Moon 3-D | Jim Bell | 2009 | Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. | 1st | 148 | Casewrap | Stereo viewer included. | |
Mysteries of Time and Space | Richard A. Proctor | 1886 | Chatto and Windus | 2nd | 418 | Cloth | ||
Myths and Marvels of Astronomy | Richard A. Proctor | 1878 | Chatto and Windus | 2nd | 363 | Half Leather | ||
New Astronomy | David Peck Todd | 1897 | American Book Company | 1st | 480 | Cloth | ||
New Handbook of the Heavens | Hubert J. Bernhard | 1948 | Whittlesey House | 2nd | 360 | Cloth | ||
New Observations of the Planet Mercury | Percival Lowell | 1898 | John Wilson and Son | 1st | 2nd printing | 32 | Paper | Reprint from Memoirs of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences Vol. XII - No. IV. |
Nouveau Traite de la Pluralite des Mondes | Christiaan Huygens | 1702 | Chez Jean Moreau | 1st | 277 | Leather | About one inch of the top of the spine is missing. This is a French translation of Kosmotheoros, which was published posthumously in 1698. | |
Novae Theoricae | Georg von Peurbach | 1537 | Ioan. Anto. de Nicolinis de Sabio, sumptu Melchioris Sessae | 19th | 40 | Quarter Leather | ||
Observational Evidence for Galactic Spiral Structure | Bart Bok | 1970 | Steward Observatory | 47 | Paper | |||
Observationes Astronomicas, Volume II | Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve | 1820 | Ex officina academica J. C. Schuenmanni | 1st | 214 | Paper | Cover missing. | |
Observationes Astronomicas, Volume III | Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve | 1822 | Ex officina academica J. C. Schuenmanni | 1st | 155 | Paper | S. W. Burnham stamped on the title page. Former Univ. of Chicago library book. | |
Observations on the Nebulae | The Earl of Rosse | 1850 | R. and J. E. Taylor | 1st | 16 | Half Leather | Inscribed by the author. Contains four plates of drawings. From the Philosophical Transactions - Part II for 1850. | |
Optical Astronomical Spectroscopy | Christopher R. Kitchin | 1995 | Institute of Physics Publishing | 1st | 272 | Casewrap | ||
Origen, Vida, Muerte y Pulverizacion de los Astros | Tomas Oria Y Balbas | 1916 | E. C. McCullough & Co., Inc. | 2nd | 130 | Cloth | Spanish language book from the Philippines. Translation of the title "Origin, Life, Death and Pulverizacion of the Stars". | |
Other Suns Than Ours | Richard A. Proctor | 1887 | W. H. Allen and Co. | 1st | 419 | Cloth | ||
Other Worlds Than Ours | Richard A. Proctor | 1882 | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 5th | 318 | Cloth | ||
Other Worlds Than Ours | Richard A. Proctor | 1896 | D. Appleton & Co. | 334 | Half Leather | |||
Ottoman Calendar Manuscript | anonymous | anonymous | 1 | Unbound | 17th century manuscript. Single page. | |||
Our Place Among the Infinities | Richard A. Proctor | 1876 | D. Appleton & Co. | 1st | 323 | Cloth | ||
Our Sun | Donald H. Menzel | 1949 | The Blakiston Company | 1st | 326 | Cloth | ||
Outlines of Astronomy | Sir John F. W. Herschel | 1867 | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 9th | 741 | Half Leather | ||
Outlines of Astronomy | Arthur Searle | 1874 | Ginn Brothers | 1st | 417 | Cloth | ||
Overhead | Annie Moore | 1878 | D. Lothrop and Company | 1st | 247 | Quarter Cloth | ||
![]() | Charles Henri Lecouturier | 1858 | Musée des Sciences | 1st | 463 | Quarter Cloth | Not a very common book. Less than 24 copies listed in the Worl Catalog. Only one copy for sale on ABE Books. | |
Photographic Giants of Palomar | James S. Fassero | 1952 | Westrnlore Press | 3rd | 72 | Paper | ||
Photographs of Nebulae and Clusters Made With the Crossley Reflector | James Edward Keeler | 1908 | University of California Publications | 1st | 46 | Cloth | Publications of the Lick Observatory - Vol VIII. 70 plates. | |
Photography in Astronomy | E.. W. H. Selwyn | 1950 | Eastman Kodak Company | 1st | 112 | Cloth | ||
Physica Experimentalis et Rationalis | Hermann Osterrieder | 1770 | Matthaei Rieger | 3rd | 764 | Leather | ||
Pictorial Astronomy | Dinsmore Alter | 1948 | Griffith Observatory | 1st | 288 | Cloth | ||
Pictures of the Heavens | anonymous | 1859 | J. and C. Mozley | 2nd | 163 | Leather | ||
Pioneers of Science | Oliver J. Lodge | 1913 | Macmillan and Company | 6th | 404 | Cloth | ||
Poole Bros' Celestial Handbook | Jules A. Colas | 1892 | Poole Bros | 1st | 110 | Cloth | ||
Populaer Astronomi | Poul Heegaard | 1902 | Ernst Bojesen | 2nd | 252 | Half Leather | ||
Popular Astronomy | Camille Flammarion | D. Appleton & Co. | 686 | Cloth | ||||
Popular Astronomy | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchell | 1866 | Oakley & Mason | 384 | Cloth | |||
Popular Astronomy | Simon Newcomb | 1879 | Harpers and Brothers Publishers | 3rd | 571 | Cloth | ||
Popular Astronomy | George Airy | 1881 | Macmillan and Company | 10th | 292 | Cloth | ||
Popular Astronomy | Camille Flammarion | 1907 | D. Appleton & Co. | 696 | Cloth | |||
Practical and Spherical Astronomy | Rev. Robert Main | 1863 | Deighton, Bell, and Co. | 1st | 392 | Cloth | ||
Practical Astronomy | Alexander Ewing | 1812 | David Allinson & Co. | 2nd | 371 | Cloth | ||
Practical Astronomy | George L. Hosmer | 1925 | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | 3rd | 265 | Cloth | ||
Practical Talks by an Astronomer | Harold Jacoby | 1902 | Charles Scribner's Sons | 1st | 235 | Cloth | ||
Principles of Stellar Dynamics | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | 1942 | The University of Chicago Press | 1st | 2 | 251 | Cloth | |
Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis | Donald D. Clayton | 1983 | The University of Chicago Press | 2nd | 612 | Paper | ||
Problems in Astrophysics | Agnes Mary Clerke | 1903 | Adam and Charles Black | 1st | 567 | Cloth | ||
Procli Sphaera | Proclus | 1547 | Parisiis, Apud Iacobum Bogardum | 1st | 15 | Vellum | Latin translation of the Greek text by Thomas Linacre and Jacobus Tusanus. | |
Publications of the Washburn Observatory Vol III | Edward Singleton Holden | 1885 | Democrat Printing Co. | 1st | 139 | Cloth | Inscribed "Presented by Senator Parry Sept 26/85" | |
Publikationen des Astrophysikalischen Instituts Königstuhl-Heidelberg, Volume: 2, Number: 1-12 | Max Wolf (editor) | 1906 | G. Braun'schen Hofbuchdr | 191 | Cloth | Bound with volume 3. Page 1 is stamped "Bequest of E. E. Barnard". Pages 1, and 29 have E. E. B hand written intials. | ||
Publikationen des Astrophysikalischen Instituts Königstuhl-Heidelberg, Volume: 3, Number: 1-8 | Max Wolf (editor) | 1909 | G. Braun'schen Hofbuchdr | 160 | Cloth | Bound with volume 2. Page one is stamped "Bequest of E. E. Barnard". Page 41 has the inscription "E. E. B 1907 Sep 23". | ||
Race to Mars | Frank Miles | 1988 | Harper & Row | 1st | 1st US edition | 192 | Cloth | |
Radiative Processes in Astrophysics | George B. Rybicki | 1979 | John Wiley & Sons | 382 | Paper | |||
Radio Astronomy for the Amateur | Dave Heiserman | 1977 | Tab Books | 1st | 2nd printing | 251 | Cloth | |
Recreations in Astronomy | Henry White Warren | 1886 | Chautauqua Press | 3rd | 284 | Cloth | ||
Red-Shifts in the Spectra of Nebulae | Edwin Hubble | 1934 | Oxford University Press | 1st | 17 | Paper | Halley lecture delivered on 5/8/1934. | |
Reduction of the Observations of Planets | George Airy | 1845 | Palmer and Clayton | 1st | 673 | Cloth | ||
Researches on the Evolution of the Stellar Systems - Volume 1 | Thomas See | 1896 | The Nichols Press | 1st | 258 | Cloth | ||
Round the Year with the Stars | Garrett P. Serviss | 1910 | Harpers and Brothers Publishers | 1st | 147 | Cloth | ||
Roving Mars | Steve Squyres | 2005 | Hyperion | 1st | 422 | Cloth | Dust jacket present. Bottom of the front flyleaf clipped. | |
Rudimentary Astronomy | Rev. Robert Main | 1882 | Crosby Lockwood and Co. | 3rd | 175 | Cloth | ||
Sammlung Populärer Astronomischer Mittheilungen | Wilhelm Förster | 1878 | Ferd. Dümmler's Verlagsbuchhandlung | 1st | 168 | Quarter Leather | ||
Saturn and Its Ring, 1875 - 1889 | Asaph Hall | 1889 | Government Printing Office | 1st | 21 | Paper | ||
Saturn and Its System | Richard A. Proctor | 1865 | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 1st | 252 | Cloth | Has library stamp from the Astronomical Society of Victoria, AU. | |
Saturn and Its System | Richard A. Proctor | 1865 | Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green | 1st | 252 | Cloth | The spine was falling off the book and it was Percival Lowell's personal copy (a Christmas present from his mother in 1872). The book was rebacked by Amanda Buck. | |
Saturn and Its System | Richard A. Proctor | 1905 | Chatto and Windus | 2nd | 3rd impression | 211 | Cloth | |
Seconde Suite Des Memoires de Mathematique et De Physique, Tirés des Registres de l'Académie Royale Des Sciences De l'Année MDCCXLVIII | Academie des Sciences | 1756 | J.Schreuder & Pierre Mortier le jeune | 1st | 342 | Leather | ||
Side-Lights on Astronomy | Simon Newcomb | 1906 | Harpers and Brothers Publishers | 1st | 350 | Cloth | ||
Signals From the Stars | George Ellery Hale | 1931 | Charles Scribner's Sons | 2nd | 138 | Cloth | ||
Sir William Huggins and Spectroscopic Astronomy | E. W. Maunder | 1913 | T. C. & E. C. Jack | 1st | 94 | Cloth | ||
Six Lectures on Astronomy | George Airy | 1849 | Simpkin and Marshall | 1st | 247 | Cloth | ||
Smith's Illustrated Astronomy | Asa Smith | 1852 | Cady & Burgess | 9th | 72 | Quarter Leather | Folio. Several torn pages | |
So That's Astronomy | R. Ray Baker | 1941 | The Reilly & Lee Co. | 1st | 126 | Cloth | ||
Spectroscopic Observations of Nebulæ | James Edward Keeler | 1894 | Lick Observatory | 1st | 64 | Quarter Cloth | ||
Spectrum Analysis | Dr. H. Schellen | 1872 | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 2nd | 662 | Cloth | Front and back boards loose. Translated from German by Jane and Caroline Lassell. | |
Sphaera Ioannis de SacroBosco Emendata | Joannes de Sacro Bosco | 1606 | Apud Hugonem Gazaeum | 1st | 10th impression? | 174 | Vellum | Latin text. Reproduction volvelles present. |
Spherical and Practical Astronomy Vol. 1 | William Chauvenet | 1885 | J. B. Lippincott Company | 5th | 708 | Cloth | ||
Spherical and Practical Astronomy Vol. 2 | William Chauvenet | 1885 | J. B. Lippincott Company | 5th | 632 | Cloth | ||
Star Clusters | Harlow Shapley | 1930 | McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. | 1st | 276 | Cloth | ||
Star Stories for Little Folks | Gertrude Chandler Warner | 1918 | The Pilgrim Press | 1st | 63 | Cloth | ||
Star-Land | Sir Robert Stawell Ball | 1890 | Cassell and Company, Ltd. | 1st | Tenth Thousand | 376 | Cloth | |
Starlight | Harlow Shapley | 1926 | George H. Doran Company | 1st | 143 | Cloth | ||
Stars | James B. Kaler | 1992 | Scientific American Library | 1st | 273 | Cloth | ||
Stars and Atoms | Arthur Stanley Eddington | 1927 | Yale University Press | 1st | 2nd impression | 127 | Cloth | |
Stars and Atoms | Arthur Stanley Eddington | 1928 | Yale University Press | 1st | 3rd impression | 131 | Cloth | |
Stars and Clusters | Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposchkin | 1979 | Harvard University Press | 1st | 262 | Cloth | Cecilia completed this book one month before her death. | |
Stars and Planets | Donald H. Menzel | 1931 | The University Society Inc. | 1st | 121 | Cloth | ||
Stars and Telescopes | David Peck Todd | 1901 | Sampson Low, Marston, & Co., Limited | 1st | 3rd impression | 419 | Cloth | |
Stars in the Making | Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposchkin | 1959 | Pocket Books, Inc. | 162 | Paper | |||
Stars Shown to the Children | Ellison Hawks | 1910 | T. C. & E. C. Jack | 1st | 119 | Cloth | This was the author's first book. | |
Stellar Atmospheres | Cecilia H. Payne | 1925 | Harvard University Press | 1st | 215 | Cloth | Signed by the author. This book was originally owned by Dr. Storer, a University of Kansas astronomer, and was purchased from Hood Books in Lawrence, KS. This book was used as a reference in the filming of "Cosmos A Spacetime Odyssey". Notes from Dr. Storer, and writing by John Hood (book seller) on the front flyleaf. Notes by Dr. Storer on pages 31, 79, 96, 189, and 209. Small tear at the bottom of page 186 and the edge of page 187 (damage occurred during scanning of pages for the Cosmos series). There were 600 copies of this book printed. | |
Stellar Evolution | Otto Struve | 1950 | Princeton University Press | 1st | 2 | 266 | Cloth | |
Stellar Motions | William W. Campbell | 1913 | Yale University Press | 1st | 328 | Cloth | ||
Stellar Movements and the Structure of the Universe | Arthur Stanley Eddington | 1914 | Macmillan and Company | 1st | 266 | Cloth | ||
Stories of the Great Astronomers | Edward Singleton Holden | 1901 | D. Appleton & Co. | 2nd | 255 | Cloth | ||
Studies in Astronomy | J. Ellard Gore | 1904 | Chatto and Windus | 1st | 336 | Cloth | ||
Sun, Moon, and Stars A Book for Beginners | Agnes Giberne | 1887 | Robert Carter and Brothers | 1st | 6th impression | 299 | Cloth | |
Sunquakes | Jack B. Zirker | 2003 | John Hopkins University Press | 1st | 265 | Cloth | ||
Sunspots in Action | Harlan True Stetson | 1947 | The Ronald Press Company | 1st | 252 | Cloth | ||
Tales About The Sun, Moon and Stars | Peter Parley | 1848 | William Tegg & Co | 5th | 390 | Cloth | ||
Telescopes and Accessories | George Z. Dimitroff | 1945 | The Blakiston Company | 1st | 309 | Cloth | ||
Telescopes and Accessories | George Z. Dimitroff | 1945 | The Blakiston Company | 1st | 309 | Cloth | Dust jacket present. Second copy. | |
Text-Book of Popular Astronomy | William G. Peck | 1883 | A. S. Barnes and Company | 1st | 330 | Cloth | 56 pages of advertisements at the end of the book. The rear flyleaf is chipped. The rear cover is dampstained. One inch tear in the spine along the front at the head. WorldCat lists only 12 copies. AbeBooks lists only one copy. | |
The ABC of Astronomy | Jay L. B Taylor | 1928 | Vanguard Press | 2nd | 123 | Cloth | ||
The Arc Spectrum of Iron From 8388 - 2242 Å | A. Gatterer | 1935 | Specola Vaticana | 1st | 10 | Paper | Includes 21 photographic plates. Co-authored by J. Junkes | |
The Astronomical Aspect of the Theory of Relativity | Willem De Sitter | 1933 | University of California Press | 2nd | 196 | Paper | Reprint of a 1932 article. Cover is loose. | |
The Aurora Borealis | Alfred Angot | 1897 | D. Appleton & Co. | 2nd | 264 | Cloth | ||
The Binary Stars | Robert G. Aitken | 1935 | Dover | 2nd | 309 | Paper | ||
The Book of Mars | Samuel Glasstone | 1968 | Government Printing Office | 1st | 315 | Cloth | ||
The Book of Mars | Samuel Glasstone | 1968 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 1st | 315 | Cloth | ||
The Borderland of Science | Richard A. Proctor | 1882 | Wyman and Sons | 2nd | 438 | Cloth | ||
The Call of the Stars | John R. Kippax | 1919 | G. P. Putnam's Sons | 2nd | 431 | Cloth | ||
The Common Sights in the Heavens | Captain A. W. Drayson | 1862 | Chapman & Hall | 1st | 231 | Cloth | ||
The Composition of the Stars | Henry Norris Russell | 1933 | Oxford University Press | 1st | 31 | Paper | Halley lecture delivered on 6/1/1933. Binding taped together. | |
The Cosmological Distance Ladder | Michael Rowan-Robinson | 1985 | W. H. Freeman and Company | 1st | 355 | Cloth | ||
The Depths of the Universe | George Ellery Hale | 1924 | Charles Scribner's Sons | 1st | 98 | Quarter Cloth | ||
The Earth and the Stars | Charles Greeley Abbott | 1926 | D. Van Nostrand Company | 1st | 2nd printing | 264 | Cloth | |
The Earth in Space: A Manual of Astronomical Geography | Edward P. Jackson | 1887 | D. C. Heath & Company | 1st | 73 | Cloth | ||
The Earth's Beginning | Sir Robert Stawell Ball | 1903 | D. Appleton & Co. | 3rd | 384 | Cloth | ||
The Elements of Astronomy | Rev. S. Vince | 1811 | Kimber and Conrad | 1st | 1st American edition | 242 | Half Leather | |
The Elements of Astronomy | S. Treeby | 1823 | Samuel Wood & Sons | 1st | 216 | Quarter Leather | Spine loose. First edition under M. Nash. | |
The Elements of Astronomy | Selim H. Peabody | 1869 | Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. | 1st | 336 | Cloth | ||
The Elements of Astronomy | Sir Robert Stawell Ball | 1900 | The MacMillan Company | 7th | 183 | Cloth | ||
The Elements of Astronomy | Edward Arthur Fath | 1934 | McGraw-Hill Book Company | 3rd | 360 | Cloth | ||
The Elements of Astronomy, Illustrated by Observations | James Mitchell | 1820 | T. and J. Allman | 1st | 212 | Half Leather | ||
The Elements of Practical Astronomy | William W. Campbell | 1899 | The MacMillan Company | 2nd | 264 | Cloth | ||
The Elements of Practical Astronomy | William W. Campbell | 1913 | The MacMillan Company | 2nd | 264 | Cloth | ||
The Evolution of Worlds | Percival Lowell | 1909 | The MacMillan Company | 1st | 262 | Cloth | Rebound. Ex-library book. | |
The Evolution of Worlds | Percival Lowell | 1909 | The MacMillan Company | 1st | 262 | Cloth | Second copy. | |
The Expanse of Heaven | Richard A. Proctor | 1874 | D. Appleton & Co. | 1st | 305 | Cloth | Front flyleaf is wrinkled. First American edition. | |
The Exploration of Mars | Willey Ley | 1956 | Viking Press | 5th | 176 | Cloth | Co-authored with Wernher Von Braun. Dust jacket present. 16 lithographs by Chesley Bonestell. | |
The Family of the Sun | Edward Singleton Holden | 1899 | D. Appleton & Co. | 1st | 252 | Cloth | ||
The Friendly Stars | Martha Evans Martin | 1907 | Harpers and Brothers Publishers | 1st | 265 | Cloth | ||
The Friendly Stars | Martha Evans Martin | 1907 | Harpers and Brothers Publishers | 1st | 265 | Cloth | ||
The Galactic Novae | Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposchkin | 1957 | North-Holland Publishing Company | 1st | 336 | Cloth | ||
The Graphical Construction of Eclipses and Occultations | William F. Rigge | 1924 | Loyola University Press | 1st | 157 | Cloth | ||
The Great Astronomers | Henry Smith Williams | 1930 | Simon and Schuster | 1st | 618 | Cloth | ||
The Handbook of the Stars | Richard A. Proctor | 1866 | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 1st | 91 | Cloth | ||
The Heavens | Amedee Guillemin | 1871 | Richard Bentley | 2nd | 432 | Cloth | Second copy. | |
The Heavens | Amedee Guillemin | 1871 | Richard Bentley | 2nd | 432 | Quarter Leather | ||
The Heavens Above, A Popular Handbook of Astronomy | J. A. Gillet | 1882 | Potter, Ainsworth & Co. | 1st | 405 | Cloth | ||
The Heavens and Their Story | Annie S. D. Maunder | 1908 | Robert Culley | 1st | 357 | Cloth | ||
The History of the Telescope | Henry C. King | 1979 | Dover | 456 | Paper | |||
The Internal Constitution of the Stars | Arthur Stanley Eddington | 1930 | Cambridge University Press | 1st | 2nd | 407 | Cloth | |
The Kinematics and Dynamics of M51 | Brent Tully | 1972 | 1st | 121 | Paper | University of Maryland thesis. Handwritten note from the author included. | ||
The Knowledge of the Heavens and the Earth made Easy | Isaac Watts | 1726 | J. Clark and R. Hett, E Mathews and R. Ford | 1st | 218 | Leather | ||
The Mariner 6 and 7 Pictures of Mars | Stewart A. Collins | 1971 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 1st | 159 | Cloth | ||
The Mathematical and Philosophical Works of the Right Rev. John Wilkins | John, Rev. Wilkins | 1802 | Vernor and Hood | 1st | 521 | Quarter Leather | ||
The Milky Way | Bart Bok | 1946 | The Blakiston Company | 2nd | 224 | Cloth | Second copy. | |
The Milky Way | Bart Bok | 1976 | Harvard University Press | 4th | 273 | Paper | Signed by Bart Bok Co-authored by Priscilla Bok. | |
![]() | Thomas Woods | 1845 | Shields and Son | 3rd | 54 | Cloth | ||
The Moon | Edmund Neison | 1876 | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 1st | 576 | Cloth | ||
The Moon as Viewed by Lunar Orbiter | L. J. Kosofsky | 1970 | U.S. Government Printing Office | 1st | 152 | Cloth | NASA SP-200. 3D glasses included. Co-authored by Farouk El-Baz. | |
The Moon Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite | James Nasmyth | 1903 | John Murry | 4th | 315 | Cloth | ||
The Moon: Her Motions, Aspect, Scenery, and Physical Condition | Richard A. Proctor | 1873 | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 1st | 394 | Cloth | Has all three silver prints by Rutherford. | |
The Mythological Astronomy of the Ancients Demonstrated, By Restoring to Their Fables & Symbols Their Original Meanings | Sampson Arnold Mackey | 1822 | R. Walker | 1st | 148 | Paper | ||
The Nature of the Physical World | Arthur Stanley Eddington | 1929 | The MacMillan Company | 1st | 5th printing. | 361 | Cloth | |
The Nature of Variable Stars | Paul Willard Merrill | 1938 | The MacMillan Company | 1st | 130 | Cloth | ||
The New American Grammar of the Elements of Astronomy | James Ryan | 1826 | Collins and Hannay | 2nd | 375 | Leather | ||
The New American Grammar of the Elements of Astronomy | James Ryan | 1827 | Collins and Hannay | 3rd | 375 | Leather | The front hinge is cracked. Second copy. | |
The New Astronomy | Samuel Pierpont Langley | 1887 | Houghton Mifflin Company | 5th | 260 | Cloth | ||
The New Canals of Mars | Percival Lowell | 1910 | Astronomische Nachrichten | 1st | 3 | Paper | Includes two plates. Reprint from Astronomische Nachrichten. | |
The Observational Approach to Cosmology | Edwin Hubble | 1937 | Oxford at the Clarendon Press | 1st | 68 | Cloth | Second copy. | |
The Observational Approach to Cosmology | Edwin Hubble | 1937 | Oxford at the Clarendon Press | 1st | 68 | Cloth | ||
The Orb Around Us | Richard A. Proctor | 1899 | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 2nd | 336 | Cloth | ||
The Orbs of the Heavens | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchell | 1851 | Office of the National Illustrated Library | 1st | 302 | Cloth | ||
The Origin of Meteorites | F.A. Paneth | 1940 | Oxford University Press | 1st | 26 | Paper | Halley lecture delivered on 5/16/1940. | |
The Photographic Story of Mars | Earl C. Slipher | 1962 | Sky Publishing Corporation | 1st | 168 | Cloth | Tipped in silver prints and a fold-out map. | |
The Pinpoint Planetarium | Armond N. Spitz | 1940 | Henry Holt and Company | 1st | 132 | Cloth | ||
The Planet Jupiter The Observer's Handbook | Bertrand M. Peek | 1981 | Faber and Faber LTD | 2nd | 240 | Cloth | ||
The Planet Mars | Gérard de Vaucouleurs | 1950 | Faber and Faber LTD | 1st | 87 | Cloth | Dust jacket present. Translated from the French by Patrick A. Moore | |
The Planet Saturn - A History of Observation | A. F. O'D Alexander | 1962 | Faber and Faber LTD | 1st | 474 | Cloth | ||
The Planetarium and Astronomical Calculator | Tobias Ostrander | 1832 | Office of the Western Argus, Lyons N.Y. | 1st | 262 | Paper | Second copy. | |
The Planetarium and Astronomical Calculator | Tobias Ostrander | 1832 | Office of the Western Argus, Lyons N.Y. | 1st | 262 | Cloth | ||
The Planetary and Stellar Worlds | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchell | 1874 | Albert Mason, Publisher | 336 | Cloth | |||
The Planetary Scientist's Companion | Katharina Lodders | 1998 | Oxford University Press | 1st | 371 | Paper | ||
The Planets | Harold Urey | 1952 | Yale University Press | 1st | 245 | Cloth | Large fold-out map of the Moon attached before the index. | |
The Poetry of Astronomy | Richard A. Proctor | 1880 | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 2nd | 447 | Cloth | ||
The Realm of the Nebulae | Edwin Hubble | 1936 | Yale University Press | 1st | 210 | Cloth | ||
The Rittenhouse Orrery | Howard C. Rice Jr. | 1954 | Princeton University Press | 1st | 88 | Cloth | ||
The Rotation of the Galaxy | Arthur Stanley Eddington | 1930 | Oxford University Press | 1st | 30 | Paper | Halley lecture delivered on 5/30/1930. | |
The Scientific Writings of David Rittenhouse | Brooke Hindle | 1980 | ARNO Press | 1st | 342 | Cloth | ||
The Sky Movies | Gaylord Johnson | 1922 | The MacMillan Company | 1st | 170 | Cloth | ||
The Solar Spectrum, 6600 to 13495 Angstroms | Harold D. Babcock | 1947 | Carnegie Institution of Washington | 1st | 95 | Paper | ||
The Solar System | anonymous | 1846 | The Religious Tract Society | 1st | 192 | Paper | ||
The Solar System | Percival Lowell | 1903 | Houghton Mifflin Company | 1st | 134 | Cloth | ||
The Solar System and Its Origins | Henry Norris Russell | 1935 | The MacMillan Company | 1st | 143 | Cloth | ||
The Spectroscope and Its Applications | Norman Lockyer | 1873 | Macmillan and Company | 1st | 117 | Cloth | ||
The Spectroscope and Its Work | H. F. Newall | 1910 | Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge | 1st | 163 | Cloth | Eight B/W plates at the end of the book. | |
The Starry Heavens | The Committee of General Literature and Education | 1851 | Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge | 138 | Cloth | |||
The Stars | George F. Chambers | 1909 | Review of Reviews Company | 2nd | 160 | Cloth | ||
The Stars and the Earth | Rev. Thomas Hill | 1882 | Lee and Shepard | 5th | 88 | Cloth | ||
The Stars for Sam | W. Maxwell Reed | 1931 | Harcourt, Brace and Company | 1st | 190 | Cloth | ||
The Stars in Song and Legend | Jermain G. Porter | 1901 | Ginn and Company | 1st | 129 | Cloth | ||
The Stars In Their Courses | Sir James H. Jeans | 1931 | The MacMillan Company | 1st | 173 | Cloth | ||
The Stars of High Luminosity | Cecilia H. Payne | 1930 | McGraw-Hill Book Company | 1st | 320 | Cloth | ||
The Story of the Heavens | Sir Robert Stawell Ball | 1905 | Cassell and Company, Ltd. | 2nd | 568 | Cloth | In two volumes. Has several tipped in silver prints. | |
The Story of the Heavens | Sir Robert Stawell Ball | 1913 | Cassell and Company, Ltd. | 3rd | 568 | Paper | 14 part serial. Each serial has advertisements for cocoa and telescopes. The last serial has a note which says that the book is ready to be sent to the binder. | |
The Story of the Solar System | George F. Chambers | 1898 | George Newnes, LTD. | 2nd | 202 | Cloth | ||
The Story of the Stars | George F. Chambers | 1896 | George Newnes, LTD. | 2nd | 192 | Cloth | ||
The Story of the Sun | Sir Robert Stawell Ball | 1893 | Cassell and Company, Ltd. | 1st | 376 | Leather | ||
The Storyland of Stars | Mara L. Pratt | 1892 | Educationl Publishing Company | 1st | 165 | Quarter Cloth | ||
The Structure of the Galaxy | Leo Goldberg (editor) | 1951 | University of Michigan Press | 84 | Paper | |||
The Sun | Richard A. Proctor | 1871 | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 1st | 480 | Half Leather | ||
The Sun | Thomas William Webb | 1885 | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 1st | 80 | Cloth | ||
The Sun | Charles Augustus Young | 1897 | D. Appleton & Co. | 4th | 363 | Quarter Leather | ||
The Sun | R. A. Sampson | 1914 | Cambridge University Press | 1st | 141 | Cloth | ||
The Sun and the Welfare of Man | Charles Greeley Abbott | 1929 | Smithsonian Institution Series Inc. | 1st | 322 | Cloth | ||
The Sun, The Stars And The Universe | William Marshall Smart | 1928 | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 1st | 291 | Cloth | ||
The Sun: Ruler, Fire, Light, and Life of the Planetary System | Richard A. Proctor | 1871 | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 1st | 440 | Cloth | ||
The System of the Stars | Agnes Mary Clerke | 1890 | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 1st | 424 | Cloth | ||
The Telescope | Louis Bell | 1922 | McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. | 1st | 6th impression | 287 | Cloth | |
The Universe and the Coming Transits | Richard A. Proctor | 1874 | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 1st | 303 | Cloth | ||
The Universe Around Us | Sir James H. Jeans | 1945 | Cambridge University Press | 4th | 297 | Cloth | ||
The Universe of Stars | Harlow Shapley (editor) | 1926 | Harvard Observatory | 1st | 205 | Cloth | Radio talks from the Harvard Observatory. Front endpaer and flyleaf stained by acidic paper left inside the front cover. | |
The Universe of Suns | Richard A. Proctor | 1884 | Chatto and Windus | 1st | 401 | Cloth | ||
The View from the Center of the Universe | Joel R. Primack | 2006 | Riverhead Books | 1st | 385 | Cloth | ||
The Visible Universe | J. Ellard Gore | 1893 | Crosby Lockwood and Son | 1st | 346 | Cloth | ||
The Visual Milky Way | Sergei Gaposchkin | 1960 | Pergamon Press | 7 | Paper | |||
The Ways of the Planets | Martha Evans Martin | 1915 | Chautauqua Press | 2nd | 273 | Cloth | ||
The White Dwarf Stars | Edward Arthur Milne | 1932 | Oxford University Press | 1st | 32 | Paper | Halley lecture delivered on 5/19/1932. | |
The Young Astronomer | John S. C. Abbott | 1846 | Saxton and Miles | 1st | 144 | Quarter Leather | ||
The Young Folks' Astronomy | John D. Champlin Jr. | 1881 | Henry Holt and Company | 1st | 236 | Cloth | ||
The Young Folk's Book of the Heavens | Mary Proctor | 1925 | Little, Brown, and Company | 1st | 256 | Cloth | ||
Theoricae Novae Planetarum | Georg von Peuerbach | 1581 | Coloniae Agrippinae : apud haeredes Arnoldi Birckmanni | 256 | Vellum | Latin text. | ||
There is Life on Mars | The Earl Nelson | 1956 | The Citadel Press | 1st | First American edition | 152 | Cloth | |
Thoughts on Some Important Points Relating to the System of the World | J. P. Nichol | 1846 | 1st | 254 | Cloth | |||
Time and Tide, A Romance of the Moon | Sir Robert Stawell Ball | circa 1899 | Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge | 1st | 192 | Cloth | ||
Time, Knowledge, and the Nebulae | Martin Johnson | 1947 | Dover | 189 | Cloth | |||
Total Eclipses Science, Observations, Myths and Legends | Pierre Guillermier | 1999 | Springer-Verlag | 1st | 247 | Paper | ||
Traité D'astronomie Élémentaire | Dr. Th. Olivier | 1870 | Vve H. Casterman | 216 | Quarter Leather | |||
Traite Elementaire D'Astronomie Physique | J. B. Biot | 1805 | Chez Bernard | 1st | 582 | Half Leather | ||
Treatise on Astronomy | Robert Woodhouse | 1821 | J. Smith | 2nd | 875 | Leather | ||
Uncovering the Secrets of the Red Planet | Paul Raeburn | 1998 | National Geographic Society | 1st | 231 | Cloth | With dust jacket and 3D glasses (2 pair). | |
Uranography; or, A Description of the Heaven;: Designed for Academies and Schools; Accompanied by an Atlas of the Heavens | Otis Kendall | 1849 | E. H. Butler & Co. | 3rd | 365 | Quarter Leather | Some cracking to the spine. | |
Variable Stars | Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposchkin | 1938 | Harvard Observatory | 1st | 382 | Cloth | ||
Variable Stars | Michel Petit | 1987 | John Wiley & Sons | 2nd | 257 | Casewrap | ||
Venus | Donald M. Hunten (editor) | 1983 | The University of Arizona Press | 1st | 1141 | Casewrap | ||
Venus II | S. W. Bougher (editor) | 1997 | The University of Arizona Press | 1st | 1362 | Casewrap | ||
Versuch Eines Lehrbuchs der Astronomie für Volksschulen | Johann Christoph Möller | 1817 | 229 | Casewrap | Astronomy textbook for elementary schools. | |||
Views of the Architecture of the Heavens | J. P. Nichol | 1837 | 1st | 226 | Half Leather | |||
Viking Orbiter Views of Mars | Cary R. Spitzer | 1980 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 1st | 182 | Cloth | Has a stereo viewer included. | |
Visual Brightness and Form of the Magellanic Clouds | Sergei Gaposchkin | 1958 | The Irish Astronomical Journal | 3 | Paper | |||
Vollständige Erklärung des Calenders mit einem fastlichen Unterricht über die Himmelskörper | E. Ludwig Walz | 1830 | Johann Ritter und Comp. | 1st | 315 | Leather | The two folding plates facing pages 78 and 144 are missing. Front flyleaf is torn. The translation of the title is "Complete explanation of the calendar, with a comprehensible lesson about the celestial bodies". The author was a Lutheran minister of Hamburg, Berks County, PA. | |
Vorlesungen über die Astronomie | Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes | 1827 | G. F. Gofden | 1st | 255 | Casewrap | ||
Worlds Without End | Sir Harold Spencer Jones | 1935 | The MacMillan Company | 1st | 329 | Cloth | ||
Y Bydoedd Uwchbe | Caradoc Mills | 1914 | P. Jones-Roberts | 174 | Cloth | Welsh language. | ||
Youth's Book of Astronomy | J. L. Comstock | 1835 | William Peirce | 1st | 136 | Cloth | ||
Zones of Stars | Rear-Admiral B. F. Sands | 1872 | Government Printing Office | 1st | 271 | Cloth | Meridian transit observations for 1846, 1847, 1848, and 1849 |
Astronomy - Archeoastronomy (6 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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A Further Account of The Rise and Progress of Astronomy Amongst the Ancients, in Three Letters to Martin Folkes, Esq; President of the Royal Society | George Costard | 1758 | Richard Clements | 1st | 163 | Leather | A follow-up to an earlier book published in 1746. This volume has been rebacked. | |
Astralmythen der Hebraeer, Babylonier und Aegypter | Eduard Stucken | 1901 | Verlag von Eduard Pfeiffer | 1st | 430 | Quarter Leather | Parts 1 through 4. | |
Astralmythen der Hebraeer, Babylonier und Aegypter | Eduard Stucken | 1907 | Verlag von Eduard Pfeiffer | 1st | 657 | Quarter Cloth | Part 5. | |
Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid | C. Piazzi Smyth | 1890 | Charles Burnet & Co. | 5th | 452 | Cloth | Discusses the relationships of the pyramids with astronomy. | |
The Dawn of Astronomy | Norman Lockyer | 1964 | The MIT Press | 1st | 432 | Paper | ||
Translation of the Surya-Siddhanta | Rev. Ebenezer Burgess | 1978 | Wizard Press | 1st | 506 | Cloth |
Astronomy - Atlases and Star Finders (83 Titles)
Atlas and Star Finder Index (Use the following buttons to navigate through the atlas and star finder titles. Use the Back button to get back to this menu.)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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A Celestial Atlas | Alexander Jamieson | 1822 | G. & W. B. Whittaker | 2nd | 64 | Half Leather | 30 plates. The top four inches of the spine is cracked. The front flyleaf is wrinkled. | |
![]() | Samuel G. Barton | 1928 | McGraw-Hill Book Company | 1st | 74 | Cloth | Duplicate book that was withdrawn from the Library of Congress. | |
A New Star Atlas | Richard A. Proctor | 1882 | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 9th | 27 | Cloth | 14 star charts. | |
A New Star Atlas | Richard A. Proctor | 1889 | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 15th | 27 | Cloth | Second copy. | |
A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way. Parts I & II. | Edward Emerson Barnard | 1927 | Carnegie Institution of Washington | 1st | 406 | Cloth | Two paperback reprints titled "Catalog of 349 Dark Objects in the Sky" are also included with this atlas. The atlas once belonged to the astronomer John Charles Duncan and all four items has his signature on them. Part I was compiled by Edwin B. Frost and Mary R. Calvert. Part II was written and compiled by Edwin B. Frost and Mary R. Calvert. | |
A Popular Guide to the Heavens | Sir Robert Stawell Ball | 1925 | George Philip & Son, Ltd. | 4th | 84 | Cloth | 83 plates. | |
A Popular Handbook and Atlas of Astronomy | William G. Peck | 1890 | Gall and Inglis | 1st | 176 | Cloth | Front and rear hinges cracked. Loose binding. | |
A Second Atlas of Objective-Prism Spectra | Nancy Houk | 1984 | The University of Michigan Press | 1st | 32 | Unbound | ||
An Atlas of Astronomy | Sir Robert Stawell Ball | 1892 | D. Appleton & Co. | 1st | 55 | Cloth | The atlas contains 72 lithographed plates. American edition. The atlas will lay open but it is not very loose. There is a scuff mark to the back cover and some wear on the head and tail of the spine. | |
An Atlas of Low-Dispersion Grating Stellar Spectra | H. A. Abt | 1968 | The University of Michigan Press | 1st | 15 | Unbound | ||
An Atlas of Objective-Prism Spectra | Nancy Houk | 1974 | The University of Michigan Press | 1st | 14 | Unbound | ||
An Easy Guide To Southern Stars | Mary Acworth Orr | circa 1911 | Gall and Inglis | 3rd | 13 | Paper | ||
An Easy Guide to the Constellations with a Star Atlas | J. Gall Inglis | circa 1900 | Gall and Inglis | 85 | Cloth | |||
Astronomy by Observation | Eliza A. Bowen | 1890 | American Book Company | 2nd | 94 | Quarter Cloth | ||
Atlas Borealis | Antonín Bečvář | 1978 | Sky Publishing Corporation | 2nd | 24 | Paper | ||
![]() | Jean Nicolas Fortin (editor) | 1776 | F.G. Deschamps & l'Auteur | 2nd | 40 | Quarter Leather | 30 copper plate star charts and one hand drawn chart. A previous owners signature is on the title page. | |
Atlas der Himmelskunde | Amand Freiherr v. von Schweiger-Lerchenfeld | 1898 | A. Hartleben's Verlag | 1st | 259 | Cloth | German language. 62 plates. A fantastic 19th century coffee table book. | |
Atlas Designed to Illustrate Burritt's Geography of the Heavens | Hiram Mattison | 1856 | Sheldon and Company | 1st | 20 | Paper | Binding has come apart. This was the first edition published by Hiram Mattison after the death of Burritt in 1838. | |
Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens | Elijah H. Burritt | 1833 | F. J. Huntington | 2nd | 8 | Paper | Water stained and a two inch tear in each page. Explicitly states second edition on the cover. Apparently, the first and second editions were in the same year. | |
Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens | Elijah H. Burritt | 1835 | Huntington and Savage | 3rd | 10 | Paper | Water stained and soiled. | |
Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens | Elijah H. Burritt | 1835 | Huntington and Savage | 3rd | 10 | Paper | In very finet condition. Some foxing and a couple of chips to the cover. | |
Atlas Eclipticalis 1950.0 | Antonín Bečvář | 1958 | Nakl. Ceskoslovenské akademie ved | 1st | 33 | Cloth | ||
Atlas of Astronomy | Alex. Kieth Johnston | 1855 | William Blackwood and Sons | 1st | 16 | Quarter Leather | ||
Atlas of Mars | R. M. Batson | 1979 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 1st | 146 | Cloth | ||
Atlas of the Heavens | Otis Kendall | 1855 | E. H. Butler & Co. | 5th | 35 | Quarter Cloth | In excellent condition. | |
Atlas of the Heavens - Atlas Coeli 1950.0 | Antonín Bečvář | 1962 | Sky Publishing Corporation | 4th | 33 | Cloth | ||
Atlas of the Heavens-II Catalogue 1950.0 | Antonín Bečvář | 1964 | Sky Publishing Corporation | 4th | 369 | Cloth | ||
Della Sfera del Mondo. Delle Stelle Fisse. | Alessandro Piccolomini | 1552 | Nicolo de Bascarini | 3rd | 270 | Vellum | Italian language. Contains 47 woodcut star maps. This work is often considered to be the first true star atlas to appear in the West. Provenance: Giovanni Andrea Fasano, priest at Sant' Angelo dei Lom bardi, convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie (17th century title inscription) and another priest of the same convent (inscription on title verso, presumably his extensive notes on saying mass on endpapers) some contemporary and later annotations. This atlas was purchased through Christies in London. | |
Der Himmel Im Bild ein Astronomischer Bilderatlas | Dr. Peter Paul Stuker | 1927 | Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung | 2nd | 103 | Cloth | ||
Easy Guide to the Constellations | Rev. James Gall | 1865 | George Philip & Son | 65 | Cloth | George Philips & Son label pasted over Gall & Inglis. | ||
![]() | anonymous | 1923 | Talleres del Instituto Geograpfico Madrid | 30 | Paper | |||
Electro Astronomical Atlas | Joseph W Spoor | 1874 | Weed Parsons and Company, Publishers | 1st | 96 | Cloth | ||
Find the Constellations | H. A. Rey | 1982 | Houghton Mifflin Company | 6th | 38th printing | 72 | Paper | This book was probably printed around 1997 since it tabulates planet positions for 1997 through 2006. |
Geologic Maps of the Taurus-Littrow Region of the Moon, Apollo 17 Pre-mission Maps | David H. Scott | 1972 | US Geological Survey | 1st | 4 | Unbound | Folded maps held in an envelope. | |
Half-Hours With The Stars | Richard A. Proctor | 1875 | G. P. Putnam's Sons | 6th | 46 | Cloth | ||
Half-Hours With the Stars | Richard A. Proctor | 1911 | G. P. Putnam's Sons | 14th | 9th impression? | 39 | Quarter Cloth | |
Hammond's Handy Star Finder | Commander S. E. Stubbs | circa 1935 | C. S. Hammond & Company, Inc. | 1 | Unbound | In original envelope with NRA (Nation Recovery Act) emblem. | ||
![]() | Commander S. E. Stubbs | 1947 | C. S. Hammond & Company, Inc. | 3 | Paper | |||
Handbook of the Constellations | Hans Vehrenberg | 1970 | Treugesell-Verlag | 1st | 195 | Cloth | ||
Himmels-Atlas in Transparenten Karten | Friedrich Braun | circa 1860 | Verlag v. Wilh. Nitzschke | Cloth | 30 constellation cards and one northern star chart. Missing the booklet. Water stains to the cover and tears to the spine. | |||
How to Find the Stars | James Freeman Clarke | 1878 | D. C. Heath & Company | 47 | Paper | 1902 printing. | ||
Hutchinson's Splendour of the Heavens | Rev. T. E. R. Phillips | circa 1925 | Hutchinson & Co. | 980 | Cloth | Volumes I and II. | ||
Lehrbuch der Kosmischen Physik /Atlas zum Lehrbuch der Kosmischen Physik | Johann Heinrich Jacob Müller | 1875 | Braunschweig, Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn | 4th | 851 | Quarter Leather | German language. The book has 431 illustrations and 25 plates. The atlas has 46 plates. | |
Luminous Star Finder | Hubbard Scientific Company | 1970 | Hubbard Scientific Company | 1 | Unbound | |||
Lunar Atlas | Dinsmore Alter | 1964 | Dover | 343 | Paper | |||
Moon Atlas | V. A. Firsoff | 1961 | Viking Press | 1st | 2 | 32 | Cloth | Two large foldout moon maps. Bottom one inch of the spine is torn. |
Norton's Star Atlas | Arthur P. Norton | 1921 | Gall and Inglis | 3rd | 32 | Cloth | 16 charts. | |
Norton's Star Atlas | Arthur P. Norton | 1973 | Sky Publishing Corporation | 16th | 116 | Cloth | 18 maps. | |
Our Stellar Universe. Stereoscopic Star Charts and Spectroscopic Key Maps | Thomas Edward Heath | 1905 | King, Sell, & Olding, LTD. | 1st | 26 | Cloth | Six pages of tables, 26 star charts and 26 stereocards. All of the stereocards are present. There is a star finder card inserted in the back cover that is probably not part of the publication. | |
Philips' Planisphere Showing the Principal Stars Visible Every Hour in the Year | anonymous | circa 1900 | George Philip & Son, Ltd. | 2 | Unbound | |||
SDUK Star Charts and Explanation | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge | 1844 | Chapman & Hall | 1st | 6th impression. | 7 | Unbound | Six folio sized star charts that are hand water colored with an explanation page. Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Engraved by J. & C. Walker. |
Skalnate Pleso Atlas of the Heavens 1950.0 | Antonín Bečvář | 1969 | Sky Publishing Corporation | 5th | 17 | Unbound | ||
Sky & Telescope's Pocket Sky Atlas | Roger W. Sinnott | 2006 | Sky Publishing Corporation | 24 | Paper | 84 star charts. This was an early bird registration gift that I received when I registered for the 236th AAS conference. | ||
SkyAtlas 2000 | Wil Tirion | 1998 | Cambridge University Press | 2nd | 30 | Softcover | Spiral bound in soft plastic covers. | |
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Atlas | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | 1969 | The MIT Press | 1st | 152 | Unbound | Boxed set of 152 star charts. | |
Splendour of the Heavens | Rev. T. E. R. Phillips | 1925 | Robert M. McBride & Company | 1st | 448 | Cloth | Volume 1 of 2. | |
![]() | anonymous | 1957 | Anchor Optical Co. | 12 | Paper | Previous owner's name embossed on the cover of the instruction booklet. Star finder and booklet are in unused condition. | ||
Star Atlas | Dr. Hermann J. Klein | 1888 | Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge | 1st | 72 | Cloth | Translated from German by Edmund McClure. Contains 18 maps. | |
Star Atlas | Winslow Upton | 1896 | Ginn and Company | 1st | 46 | Cloth | ||
Star Atlas | Winslow Upton | 1896 | Ginn and Company | 1st | 46 | Cloth | Second copy. Some red pencil marks. | |
![]() | Dr. Hugh S. Rice | 1958 | American Museum-Hayden Planetarium | 5th | 1 | 1 | Unbound | |
Star Groups | J. Ellard Gore | 1891 | Crosby Lockwood and Son | 1st | 115 | Cloth | About 115 unnumbered pages with 30 star maps. | |
Star Maps 1918 | Walter B. Blaikie, LL.D. | 1918 | Scottish Provident Institution | 1st | 26 | Paper | ||
Star Maps 1919 | Walter B. Blaikie, LL.D. | 1919 | Scottish Provident Institution | 1st | 26 | Paper | ||
![]() | L. M. Levitt | 1946 | Franklin Institute | 5th | 33 | Paper | ||
Star-Gazers Hand-Book | Henry W. Elson | 1909 | Sturgis & Walton Company | 2nd | 55 | Cloth | ||
Stern - Atlas I | Dr. Peter Paul Stuker | 1924 | Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung | 1st | 48 | Paper | Overlays included. -30 to +30 Declination. | |
Stern - Atlas II | Dr. Peter Paul Stuker | 1925 | Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung | 1st | 32 | Paper | +30 to +90 Declination. Overlay missing. | |
Stern - Atlas III | Dr. Peter Paul Stuker | 1926 | Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung | 1st | 25 | Paper | Overlay included. -30 to -90 Declination. | |
![]() | Jan Daniel Georgens | 1858 | Zamarski, Dittmarsch & Comp | 1st | 78 | Half Cloth | Rebound in half cloth binding. Minor tears on a couple of pages mended with tape. | |
Stern-Karten nebst Sternfinder für Seeleute und Reisende Sowie alle Freunde des Sternenhimmels | Julius Bortfeld | 1906 | L. v. Vangerow | 2nd | 4 | Paper | English translation of the title is: "Star Cards and Star Finders for Seafarers and Travelers as Well as all Friends of the Starry Sky" | |
Tabulae Caelestes Himmels Atlas | P. Götz | 1909 | Ed. Gaebler's Geographisches Institut | 2nd | 20 | Cloth | ||
The AAVSO Variable Star Atlas | Charles E. Scovil | 1980 | Sky Publishing Corporation | 1st | 178 | Unbound | Boxed set of star charts. The box corners are torn and have been reglued. | |
The Cosmosphere | Carl Sagan | 1981 | Carl Sagan Productions Inc. | 1st | 18 | Paper | The planisphere is made of metal and bowl shaped with a plastic movable disc that is also bowl shaped. The red plastic wrapper for the planisphere is missing. The box has tape on one end to keep the flap closed. | |
The Large Magellanic Cloud | Paul W. Hodge | 1967 | Smithsonian Press | 1st | 168 | Unbound | 168 photographic charts of the Large Magellanic Cloud. | |
The Moon | William H. Pickering | 1903 | Doubleday, Page & Company | 1st | 103 | Cloth | ||
The Moon | William H. Pickering | 1904 | Doubleday, Page & Company | 2nd | 103 | Cloth | Water stain on front cover. Tape repairs to the front flyleaf. 100 illustrations. This atlas was produced while the author was at the Woodlawn Observatory, located at Mandeville Jamaica. That observatory was established by the Harvard Observatory to observe the asteroid Eros in an attempt to determine the size of the Earth's orbit. The observations of Eros did not turn out as hoped, and this lunar atlas was an attempt to salvage the expedition. | |
The People's Atlas of the Stars with Key Maps | Rev. James Gall | 1867 | Gall and Inglis | 4th | 8 | Paper | Companion to the "Easy Guide to the Constellations". This atlas has four star maps. | |
The Star Finder | Henry M. Neely | 1943 | Smith & Durrell, Inc. | 1st | 46 | Casewrap | The spine is missing but the covers are still attached (hinges are cracked). The charts in this book were intended to be cut out. | |
The Twentieth Century Atlas of Popular Astronomy | Thomas Heath | 1903 | Frederick A. Stokes Company | 1st | 126 | Cloth | Many color lithographs. Plates 1 and 2 are detached but still present. Several other plates are beginning to separate from the book. | |
![]() | W. J. Lockwood | 1929 | The Star Finder Co. | 2 | Unbound | There is a sticker from the C. S. Hammond & Co. on the front of the star finder. | ||
True Visual Magnitude Photographic Star Atlas | Christos Papadopoulos | 1979 | Pergamon Press | 1st | 456 | Cloth | Three volumes. Volume 1 - southern stars. Volume 2 - equatorial stars. Volume 3 - northern stars. 456 photographs; 15 overlay grids, 3 working boards, 2 eyepiece fields. This is a very large atlas, weighting in at 17 kilograms (37.5 pounds). | |
Звездный Атлас для Небесных Наблюдений (Star Atlas for Celestial Observations) | Jacob Messer | 1901 | K. L. Rikkera | 3rd | 260 | Cloth | Russian language. 26 folded charts attached to the text and 2 large folded maps on the inside of the back cover. |
Astronomy - Computational (15 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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Astronomical Algorithms | Jean Meeus | 2005 | Willmann-Bell, Inc. | 2nd | 4th printing | 477 | Casewrap | |
Astronomy with your Personal Computer | Peter Duffett-Smith | 1988 | Cambridge University Press | 2nd | 2nd printing | 256 | Paper | |
Astrophysics with a PC | Paul Hellings | 1994 | Willmann-Bell, Inc. | 1st | 1st printing | 260 | Paper | |
Mathematical Astronomy Morsels | Jean Meeus | 2000 | Willmann-Bell, Inc. | 1st | 2nd printing | 379 | Casewrap | |
Mathematical Astronomy Morsels III | Jean Meeus | 2004 | Willmann-Bell, Inc. | 1st | 374 | Casewrap | ||
Mathematical Astronomy Morsels IV | Jean Meeus | 2007 | Willmann-Bell, Inc. | 1st | 373 | Casewrap | ||
Mathematical Astronomy with a Pocket Calculator | Aubrey Jones FRAS | 1978 | John Wiley & Sons | 1st | 254 | Cloth | ||
Methods of Orbit Determination for the Microcomputer | Dan Boulet | 1991 | Willmann-Bell, Inc. | 1st | 565 | Casewrap | ||
Microcomputer Control of Telescopes | Mark Trueblood | 1985 | Willmann-Bell, Inc. | 1st | 2nd printing | 377 | Paper | |
Microcomputers in Astronomy | Russell M. Genet (editor) | 1983 | Fairborn Observatory | 1st | 253 | Paper | ||
Microcomputers in Astronomy II | Russell M. Genet (editor) | 1984 | Fairborn Observatory | 1st | 219 | Paper | ||
More Mathematical Astronomy Morsels | Jean Meeus | 2002 | Willmann-Bell, Inc. | 1st | 429 | Casewrap | ||
Orbits for Amateurs with a Microcomputer | D. Tattersfield | 1984 | Halsted Press | 1st | 2nd printing | 171 | Cloth | |
Practical Astronomy with your Calculator | Peter Duffett-Smith | 1982 | Cambridge University Press | 2nd | 3rd printing | 188 | Paper | |
Telescope Control | Mark Trueblood | 1997 | Willmann-Bell, Inc. | 2nd | 3rd printing | 561 | Casewrap |
Astronomy - Mythology (3 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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C. Iulii Hygini, Augusti Liberti, Fabularum Liber, Ad Omnium Poetarum Lectionem Mire Necessarius, & nunc denuò excusus. Eiusdem Poeticon Astronomicon, Libri quatuor. | Jacobus Micyllus (editor) | 1570 | Heruagiana | 276 | Vellum | Latin language. Originally published in 1535. 251 numbered pages and 25 index pages. The front and rear flyleafs have portions missing. The title page and a few other pages from the front and end of the text block are missing the bottom corners. The vellum on the spine is torn. The clasps are missing. The top and bottom one inch of the spine is missing. Contributions by C Julius Hyginus; Lucius Annaeus Cornutus; Jakob Moltzer; Eusebius Episcopius; Albricus, philosophus; Aratus, Solensis.; Proclus; Palaephatus.; Fabius Planciades Fulgentius; Officina Hervagiana. | ||
Star Lore of All Ages | William Tyler Olcott | 1911 | G. P. Putnam's Sons | 1st | 453 | Cloth | ||
Star Tales | Ian Ridpath | 1988 | Universe Books | 161 | Cloth |
Astronomy - Observing Guides (18 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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A User's Guide to the LXD55 and LXD75 Telescopes | Martin Peston | 2007 | Springer-Verlag | 1st | 254 | Paper | A gift from the author who used several of my planetary images in theis book. | |
Astronomy A Handbook | G. D. Roth (editor) | 1975 | Sky Publishing Corporation | 2nd | 567 | Paper | ||
Burnham's Celestial Handbook (Volumes 1,2,3) | Robert Burnham Jr. | 1978 | Dover | 2nd | 2138 | Paper | In three volumes | |
Light Pollution Responses and Remedies | Bob Mizon | 2002 | Springer-Verlag | 1st | 216 | Paper | ||
Lunar and Planetary Webcam User's Guide | Marten Mobberley | 2006 | Springer-Verlag | 1st | 229 | Paper | ||
Observing Comets | Nick James | 2003 | Springer-Verlag | 1st | 234 | Paper | ||
Practical Amateur Spectroscopy | Stephen F. Tonkin (editor) | 2002 | Springer-Verlag | 1st | 210 | Paper | ||
Real Astronomy with Small Telescopes | Michael K. Grainer | 2007 | Springer-Verlag | 1st | 148 | Paper | ||
Solar Observing Techniques | Christopher R. Kitchin | 2002 | Springer-Verlag | 1st | 218 | Paper | ||
Telescopes and Techniques | Christopher R. Kitchin | 1995 | Springer-Verlag | 1st | 204 | Paper | ||
The Art and Science of CCD Astronomy | David Ratlidge (editor) | 1997 | Springer-Verlag | 1st | 178 | Paper | ||
The Sun in Eclipse | Michael Maunder | 1998 | Springer-Verlag | 1st | 211 | Paper | ||
Webb Society Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook Volume 1 Double Stars | Kenneth Glyn Jones (editor) | 1975 | Enslow Publishers | 1st | 120 | Paper | First American edition. | |
Webb Society Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook Volume 1 Double Stars | Kenneth Glyn Jones (editor) | 1986 | Enslow Publishers | 2nd | 165 | Paper | ||
Webb Society Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook Volume 2 Planetary and Gaseous Nebulae | Kenneth Glyn Jones (editor) | 1978 | Enslow Publishers | 1st | 149 | Paper | First American edition. | |
Webb Society Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook Volume 5 Clusters of Galaxies | Kenneth Glyn Jones (editor) | 1982 | Enslow Publishers | 1st | 241 | Paper | First American edition. | |
Webb Society Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook Volume 6 Anonymous Galaxies | Kenneth Glyn Jones (editor) | 1987 | Enslow Publishers | 1st | 137 | Paper | First American edition. | |
Webb Society Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook Volume 7 The Southern Sky | Kenneth Glyn Jones (editor) | 1987 | Enslow Publishers | 1st | 197 | Leather | First American edition. |
Astronomy - Periodicals (6 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College - A Heterochomatic Study of the Pleiades, Volume: 89, Number: 2 | Cecilia H. Payne | 1932 | Harvard Observatory | 17 | Paper | "Discarded" printed on the cover. | ||
Publications of the American Astronomical Society - Forty-Sixth Meeting September 7-9, 1931, Volume: 7, Number: 2 | Raymond Dugan (editor) | 1931 | American Astronomical Society | 86 | Paper | |||
Publications of the American Astronomical Society - Seventieth Meeting Cambridge Massachusetts May 28-30, 1943, Volume: 10, Number: 8 | Dean B. McLaughlin (editor) | 1944 | American Astronomical Society | 35 | Paper | |||
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume: IX, Number: 54 - 59 | 1897 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific | 1st | 255 | Half Leather | Silver print of Jupiter on page 174 of Volume IX. Volume X bound with volume IX. | ||
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume: X, Number: 60 - 64 | 1898 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific | 263 | Half Leather | Bound with volume IX. | |||
The Mentor - New Marvels of Astronomy, Volume: 9, Number: 9 | Garrett P. Serviss | 1921 | The Crowell Publishing Company | 40 | Paper | Gift from a friend. The Mentor was a monthly periodical that featured articles on literature, history, science, nature, art, music and travel. The magazine was published from about 1913 through 1931. This issue focused on astronomy. |
Astronomy - Stereo Cards (24 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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First Quarter Moon Stereoview | E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. | circa 1880 | E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. | Unbound | ||||
Full Moon Stereoview | S. F. Adams | circa 1880 | S. F. Adams | Unbound | ||||
Full Moon Stereoview | C. Bierstadt Publishers | circa 1897 | C. Bierstadt Publishers | Unbound | ||||
Full Moon Stereoview | C. Bierstadt Publishers | circa 1897 | C. Bierstadt Publishers | Unbound | Distributed by Underwood & Underwood. Creased. | |||
Lick Observatory Stereoview | B. W. Kilburn | 1895 | B. W. Kilburn | Unbound | Albumen print. | |||
Saturn im Sternbild des Schlangenträger | C. Pulfrich | 1900 | Carl Zeiss, Jena | Unbound | Two stereo cards. Saturn in the constellation of the serpent bearer. Based on recordings by M. Wolf. Compiled in June 1900 by C. Pulfrich, Jena. | |||
Stereoview First Quarter Moon | B. W. Kilburn | 1895 | B. W. Kilburn | Albumen print. | ||||
Stereoview Full Moon | Kilburn Brothers | circa 1880 | Kilburn Brothers | Unbound | Albumen print. | |||
Stereoview Full Moon | Keystone View Company | circa 1910 | Keystone View Company | Unbound | ||||
![]() | anonymous | 1910 | Keystone View Company | Unbound | ||||
Stereoview Mars | Keystone View Company | circa 1910 | Keystone View Company | Unbound | 2nd copy. | |||
Stereoview Mars | Keystone View Company | circa 1910 | Keystone View Company | Unbound | Silver prints are faded. | |||
Stereoview Meteor in Orion | Keystone View Company | circa 1910 | Keystone View Company | Unbound | 2nd copy. | |||
Stereoview Meteor in Orion | Keystone View Company | circa 1910 | Keystone View Company | Unbound | ||||
Stereoview Meteor in Orion | Keystone View Company | circa 1910 | Keystone View Company | Unbound | 3rd copy. | |||
Stereoview Morehouse Comet | Keystone View Company | circa 1910 | Keystone View Company | Unbound | ||||
Stereoview Saturn | Keystone View Company | circa 1910 | Keystone View Company | Unbound | 2nd copy. | |||
Stereoview Saturn | Keystone View Company | circa 1910 | Keystone View Company | Unbound | ||||
Stereoview Sun | Keystone View Company | circa 1910 | Keystone View Company | Unbound | 3rd copy. | |||
Stereoview Sun | Keystone View Company | circa 1910 | Keystone View Company | Unbound | 2nd copy. | |||
Stereoview Sun | Keystone View Company | circa 1910 | Keystone View Company | Unbound | ||||
Stereoview Uranus | Keystone View Company | circa 1910 | Keystone View Company | Unbound | ||||
Stereoview Uranus | Keystone View Company | circa 1910 | Keystone View Company | Unbound | 2nd copy. | |||
Stereoview Uranus | Keystone View Company | circa 1910 | Keystone View Company | Unbound | 3rd copy. |
Astronomy - Telescope Making (26 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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A Manual for Telescope Makers | Karine Lecleire | 2003 | Willmann-Bell, Inc. | 1st | 299 | Casewrap | ||
Advanced Telescope Making Techniques, Volume 1 Optics | Allan Mackintosh | 2000 | Willmann-Bell, Inc. | 1st | 343 | Casewrap | ||
Advanced Telescope Making Techniques, Volume 2 Mechanical | Allan Mackintosh | 2000 | Willmann-Bell, Inc. | 1st | 343 | Casewrap | ||
Amateur Telescope Maker's Guide to Setting up a Home Optics Shop | Robert Piekiel | 2011 | Lulu Publishing | 1st | 210 | Paper | ||
Amateur Telescope Making | Stephen F. Tonkin | 2004 | Springer | 1st | 5th printing | 259 | Paper | |
Amateur Telescope Making Book One | Albert Ingalls | 1976 | Scientific American | 4th | 22nd printing | 510 | Cloth | |
Amateur Telescope Making Book Three | Albert Ingalls | 1977 | Scientific American | 1st | 9th printing | 646 | Cloth | |
Amateur Telescope Making Book Two | Albert Ingalls | 1978 | Scientific American | 1st | 17th printing | 650 | Cloth | |
CCD Astronomy | Christian Buil | 1991 | Willmann-Bell, Inc. | 1st | 321 | Casewrap | ||
Constructing an Astronomical Telescope | G. Matthewson | 1957 | Philosophical Library | 2nd | 3rd printing | 100 | Cloth | |
Frank's Book of the Telescope | Arthur Frank | 1958 | Pollock Bros. & Co. | 1st | 132 | Cloth | Folded diagram included. | |
How and Why to Make a User-Friendly Sidewalk Telescope | John L. Dobson | 1991 | Everything in the Universe | 1st | 165 | Quarter Cloth | Plywood boards for the front and rear covers. | |
How to Make a telescope | Jean Texereau | 1984 | Willmann-Bell, Inc. | 2nd | Casewrap | |||
How to Make and Use a Telescope | H. Percy Wilkins | 1956 | W. W. Norton & Company | 1st | 1st US edition | 196 | Cloth | |
Making a Refractor Telescope | Norman Remer | 2006 | Willmann-Bell, Inc. | 1st | 391 | Casewrap | ||
Making Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope Optics | Robert Piekiel | 2010 | Lulu Publishing | 1st | 320 | Paper | ||
Making Your Own Telescope | Allyn J. Thompson | 1954 | Sky Publishing Corporation | 1st | 4th printing. | 211 | Cloth | |
New Generation Small Telescopes | Donald S. Hayes | 1987 | Fairborn Observatory | 1st | 441 | Paper | ||
Optical Shop Testing | Daniel Malacara | 1978 | John Wiley & Sons | 1st | 2nd printing | 523 | Cloth | |
Robotic Observatories | Russell M. Genet | 1989 | AutoScope Corporation | 1st | 292 | Casewrap | ||
Standard Handbook for Telescope Making | N. E. Howard | 1959 | Thomas Y. Crowell Company | 1st | 326 | Cloth | ||
Star Testing Astronomical Telescopes | Harold Richard Suiter | 2003 | Willmann-Bell, Inc. | 1st | 6th printing | 364 | Casewrap | |
Telescope Optics | Harrie G. Rutten | 2002 | Willmann-Bell, Inc. | 1st | 5th printing | 398 | Casewrap | |
Testing and Evaluating the Optics of Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescopes | Robert Piekiel | 2008 | Lulu Publishing | 1st | 256 | Paper | ||
The Spectrohelioscope | Fredrick N. Veio | 1991 | 1st | 84 | Paper | |||
Tips for Making Optical Flats | Robert Piekiel | 2011 | Lulu Publishing | 1st | 68 | Paper |
Astronomy History (82 Titles)
Astronomy History Index (Use the following buttons to navigate through the astronomy history titles. Use the Back button to get back to this menu.)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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A History of Astronomy From Thales to Kepler | J. L. E. Dreyer | 1953 | Dover | 2nd | 438 | Paper | ||
A Man Who Loved the Stars: The Autobiography of John A. Brashear | John A. Brashear | 1988 | University of Pittsburgh Press | 2nd | 190 | Paper | Reprint of the 1924 edition that was published by The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. | |
A More Perfect Heaven | Dava Sobel | 2011 | Walker & Company | 1st | 273 | Cloth | "Withdawn" stamped on the front flyleaf. | |
A Short History of Astronomy | Arthur Berry | 1961 | Dover | 440 | Paper | |||
Alvan Clark & Sons, Artists in Optics | Deborah Jean Warner | 1968 | Smithsonian Press | 1st | 120 | Cloth | ||
![]() | John Lankford | 1997 | The University of Chicago Press | 1st | 447 | Cloth | ||
Astronomers of Today | Hector Macpherson, Junior | 1905 | Gall and Inglis | 1st | 261 | Cloth | Presentation copy to Percival Lowell. Front hinge is cracked. | |
Astronomia Nova | Johannes Kepler | 2015 | Green Lion Press | 2nd | 527 | Paper | ||
![]() | Basil John Wait Brown | 1932 | Search Publishing Company | 1st | 200 | Cloth | ||
Astronomy and History Selected Essays | Otto Eduard Neugebauer | 1983 | Springer-Verlag | 1st | 538 | Paper | ||
Big and Bright: A History of the McDonald Observatory | David S. Evans | 1986 | University of Texas Press | 1st | 186 | Paper | ||
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin An Autobiography and Other Recollections | Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposchkin | 1984 | Cambridge University Press | 1st | 269 | Cloth | ||
![]() | Elena Percivaldi | 2018 | VMB Publishers | 2nd | 207 | Casewrap | English translation of the original Italian edition. | |
![]() | Robert W. McNaught | 2018 | Lulu | 7th | 270 | Casewrap | ||
![]() | Robert W. McNaught | 2018 | Lulu | 7th | 262 | Casewrap | ||
![]() | Carole Stott | 1995 | Studio Editions Ltd. | 2nd | 128 | Cloth | ||
Clyde Tombaugh Discoverer of Planet Pluto | David H. Levy | 1991 | The University of Arizona Press | 1st | 211 | Cloth | ||
Clyde Tombaugh Discoverer of Planet Pluto | David H. Levy | 1991 | The University of Arizona Press | 1st | 211 | Paper | Signed by Clyde Tombaugh. Gift from a friend. | |
Comet | Carl Sagan | 1985 | Random House | 1st | 2 | 396 | Cloth | |
Comets A Chonological History of Observation, Science, Myth, and Folklore | Donald K. Yeomans | 1991 | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | 1st | 485 | Cloth | ||
Cosmos | Carl Sagan | 1980 | Random House | 1st | 1 | 365 | Cloth | |
David Gill Man and Astronomer | George Forbes | 1916 | John Murry | 1st | 418 | Cloth | ||
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems | Galileo Galilei | 1974 | University of California Press | 2nd | 3 | 496 | Paper | |
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences | Galileo Galilei | 1914 | Dover | 300 | Paper | |||
Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo | Galileo Galilei | 1957 | Anchor Books | 301 | Paper | |||
Edwin Hubble Mariner of the Nebulae | Gale E. Christianson | 1995 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 1st | 420 | Cloth | ||
Galileo in Rome | William R. Shea | 2003 | Oxford University Press | 1st | 226 | Cloth | ||
Galileo's Daughter | Dava Sobel | 2000 | Penguin Books | 1st | 2 | 420 | Paper | |
Galileo's New Universe | Stephen P. Maran | 2009 | Benbella Books, Inc. | 1st | 163 | Paper | ||
Gallileo's Intellectual Revolution | William R. Shea | 1977 | Science History Publications | 2nd | 204 | Paper | ||
James E. Keeler: Pioneer American Astrophysicist | Donald E. Osterbrock | 1984 | Cambridge University Press | 1st | 411 | Casewrap | ||
James Lick's Monument | Helen Wright | 1987 | Cambridge University Press | 1st | 231 | Cloth | ||
Johannes Kepler and the New Astronomy | James R. Voelkel | 1999 | Oxford University Press | 1st | 141 | Paper | ||
John A. Brashear The Autobiography of a Man who Loved the Stars | John A. Brashear | 1924 | The American Society of Mechanical Engineers | 1st | 262 | Cloth | ||
Kepler 1571 - 1630 | Max Caspar | 1962 | Collier Books | 416 | Paper | |||
Kepler's Physical Astronomy | Bruce Stephenson | 1987 | Princeton University Press | 1st | 2 | 216 | Paper | |
Kepler's Witch | James A. Connor | 2004 | Harper SanFransisco | 1st | 401 | Cloth | ||
Latitude | Bill Carter | 2002 | Naval Institute Press | 1st | 252 | Cloth | ||
Lowell and Mars | William Graves Hoyt | 1996 | The University of Arizona Press | 1st | 2nd printing | 376 | Paper | |
Maria Mitchell: A Life in Journals and Letters | Henry Albers (editor) | 2001 | College Avenue Press | 1st | 370 | Cloth | ||
Mathematical Astronomy in Copernicus's de Revolutionibus Part 1 | Noel Mark Swerdlow | 1984 | Springer-Verlag | 1st | 537 | Cloth | ||
Mathematical Astronomy in Copernicus's de Revolutionibus Part 2 | Noel Mark Swerdlow | 1984 | Springer-Verlag | 1st | 169 | Cloth | ||
Measuring the Universe | Kitty Ferguson | 1999 | Walker & Company | 1st | 2 | 342 | Paper | |
Miss Leavitt's Stars | George Johnson | 2005 | Atlas Books | 1st | 162 | Cloth | ||
Mysterium Cosmographicum | Johannes Kepler | 1999 | Abaris Books | 2nd | 267 | Paper | Translation by A.M. Duncan. | |
Nicholas Copernicus 1543-1943 | Stephen P. Mizwa | 1943 | The Kosciuszko Foundation | 1st | 2 | 87 | Cloth | |
Nicolaus Copernicus: Making the Earth a Planet | Owen Gingerich | 2005 | Oxford University Press | 1st | 1 | 124 | Casewrap | |
On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres | Nicolaus Copernicus | 2002 | Running Press | 384 | Paper | |||
Out of the Darkness The Planet Pluto | Clyde W. Tombaugh | 1980 | Stackpole Books | 1st | 220 | Cloth | ||
Parallax The Race to Measure the Cosmos | Alan Hirshfeld | 2001 | W. H. Freeman and Company | 1st | 314 | Cloth | ||
Percival Lowell's Big Red Car | William Lowell Putnam | 2002 | McFarland & Company, Inc. | 1st | 175 | Paper | ||
Pioneers of Science | Oliver J. Lodge | 1960 | Dover | 404 | Paper | |||
Planets X and Pluto | William Graves Hoyt | 1980 | The University of Arizona Press | 302 | Paper | |||
![]() | Nick Kanas | 2014 | Springer-Praxis | 1st | 331 | Paper | ||
![]() | Nick Kanas | 2012 | Springer-Praxis | 2nd | 528 | Paper | ||
Stargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope | Fred Watson | 2004 | Da Capo Press | 1st | 342 | Quarter Cloth | ||
The Analysis of Starlight : One Hundred and Fifty Years of Astronomical Spectroscopy | John B. Hearnshaw | 1986 | Cambridge University Press | 1st | 531 | Casewrap | ||
The Astronomers | Donald Goldsmith | 1991 | St. Marten's Press | 332 | Cloth | |||
The Astronomical Revolution | Alexandre Koyré | 1973 | Cornel University Press | 2nd | 531 | Cloth | ||
The Astronomical Scrapbook | Joseph Ashbrook | 1984 | Cambridge University Press | 1st | 468 | Cloth | ||
The Book Nobody Read | Owen Gingerich | 2004 | Penguin Books | 1st | 306 | Paper | ||
The Cold Light of Dawn: A History of Canadian Astronomy | Richard A. Jarrell | 1988 | University of Toronto Press | 1st | 251 | Cloth | ||
The Composition of Kepler's Astronomia Nova | James R. Voelkel | 2001 | Princeton University Press | 1st | 308 | Casewrap | ||
The Controversy on the Comets of 1618 | Galileo Galilei | 1960 | University of Pennsylvania Press | 1st | 380 | Cloth | ||
The Copernican Revolution | Thomas S. Kuhn | 1957 | Harvard University Press | 1st | 6 | 297 | Paper | |
The Earth Moves | Dan Hofstadter | 2009 | Atlas Books | 1st | 240 | Cloth | ||
The Explorers of Mars Hill | William Lowell Putnam | 1994 | Phoenix Publishing | 1st | 289 | Cloth | ||
The Eye of Heaven Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler | Owen Gingerich | 1993 | The American Institute of Physics | 1st | 442 | Cloth | Volume seven in the Masters of Modern Physics series. | |
The Georgian Star | Michael D. Lemonick | 2009 | W. W. Norton & Company | 1st | 199 | Cloth | ||
The Glass Universe | Dava Sobel | 2016 | Viking Press | 1st | 2 | 324 | Quarter Cloth | |
The Great Star Map | Herbert Hall Turner | 1912 | E. P. Dutton and Company | 1st | 159 | Cloth | ||
The Harvard College Observatory | Bessie Zaban Jones | 1971 | The Belknap Press | 1st | 495 | Cloth | ||
The Moon and the Western Imagination | Scott L. Montgomery | 1999 | The University of Arizona Press | 1st | 1st printing. | 265 | Cloth | |
The Neptune File | Tom Standage | 2000 | Walker & Company | 1st | 240 | Cloth | ||
The Observatory in Islam | Aydin Sayili | 1988 | Turk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi | 2nd | 472 | Paper | ||
The Planet Mars A History of Observation & Discovery | William Sheehan | 1996 | The University of Arizona Press | 270 | Paper | |||
The Shadow of the Telescope: A Biography of John Herschel | Günther Buttmann | 1970 | Charles Scribner's Sons | 1st | 219 | Cloth | English language translation of the German text. Small tear on the bottom of the dust jacket. | |
![]() | Edward Brooke-Hitching | 2019 | Chronicle Books | 1st | 2 | 255 | Cloth | |
To Father The Letters of Sister Maria Celeste to Galileo 1623 - 1633 | Dava Sobel | 2001 | Fourth Estate | 1st | 377 | Cloth | ||
Tycho & Kepler | Kitty Ferguson | 2002 | Walker & Company | 1st | 402 | Cloth | ||
Victorian Telescope Makers | Ian S Glass | 1997 | Institute of Physics Publishing | 1st | 279 | Cloth | ||
What Stars Are Made Of The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | Donovan Moore | 2020 | Harvard University Press | 1st | 1 | 298 | Cloth |
Astronomy Prints (38 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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Bode Hand Colored Print - Solar System | Johann Elert Bode | 1777 | Nicolaischen Buchhandlung | 1 | Unbound | |||
Bode Hand Colored Star Chart - April | Johann Elert Bode | 1777 | Nicolaischen Buchhandlung | 1 | Unbound | |||
![]() | Johann Elert Bode | 1777 | Nicolaischen Buchhandlung | 1 | Unbound | |||
Bode Hand Colored Star Chart - December | Johann Elert Bode | 1777 | Nicolaischen Buchhandlung | 1 | Unbound | |||
Bode Hand Colored Star Chart - December | Johann Elert Bode | 1777 | Nicolaischen Buchhandlung | 1 | Unbound | 2nd copy | ||
Bode Hand Colored Star Chart - Februarius | Johann Elert Bode | 1777 | Nicolaischen Buchhandlung | 1 | Unbound | |||
Bode Hand Colored Star Chart - Julius | Johann Elert Bode | 1777 | Nicolaischen Buchhandlung | 1 | Unbound | |||
Bode Hand Colored Star Chart - Julius | Johann Elert Bode | 1777 | Nicolaischen Buchhandlung | 1 | Unbound | Second copy. | ||
Bode Hand Colored Star Chart - Märtz | Johann Elert Bode | 1777 | Nicolaischen Buchhandlung | 1 | Unbound | |||
Bode Hand Colored Star Chart - November | Johann Elert Bode | 1777 | Nicolaischen Buchhandlung | 1 | Unbound | |||
Bode Hand Colored Star Chart - September | Johann Elert Bode | 1777 | Nicolaischen Buchhandlung | 1 | Unbound | |||
Chart of the Heavens | James Reynolds | 1878 | 1 | Unbound | ||||
October Through December Constellations | Hiram Mattison | 1856 | Sheldon and Company | 1st | 1 | Unbound | Disbound hand colored print from "Atlas Designed to Illustrate Burritt's Geography of the Heavens". | |
One Print from "Atlas Coelestis in quo Mundus Spectabilis" | Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr | 1742 | Homann's Heirs | 1st | 1 | Unbound | This celestial chart depicts Tycho Brahe's model of the Solar System surrounded by the signs of the Zodiac. This was purchased from a map dealer in Cyprus. | |
One Print from "Atlas Coelestis in quo Mundus Spectabilis" | Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr | 1742 | Homann's Heirs | 1st | 1 | Unbound | ||
One Print from "Atlas Coelestis in quo Mundus Spectabilis": Motus in Coelo Spirales quos Planetae Inferiores Venus et Mercurius Secundum Tychonicorum Hypothesin Exhibent | Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr | 1742 | Homann's Heirs | 1st | 1 | Unbound | This print shows how the Tychonic model explains the retrograde motions of Mercury and Venus. This is the 9th print from Doppelmayr's atlas. | |
One Print from "Atlas Coelestis in quo Mundus Spectabilis": Phaenomena Motuum Irregularium quos Planetae Inferiores Venus et Mercurius ad Annum Salutis | Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr | 1742 | Homann's Heirs | 1st | 1 | Unbound | This print shows how the Copernican model explains the retrograde motions of Mercury and Venus. This is the 7th print from Doppelmayr's atlas. | |
One Print from "Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica" | Andreas Cellarius | 1708 | Pieter Schenk & Gerard Valk | 2nd | 1 | Unbound | Full title of this print: "Haemisphaeria Sphaerarum Rectae et Obliquae Utriusque Motus et Longitudines tam Coelestes quam Terrestres ac Stellarum Affectiones Monsrantia" | |
![]() | Andreas Cellarius | 1708 | Pieter Schenk & Gerard Valk | 2nd | 1 | Unbound | This print is titled "Corporum Coelestium Magnitudines". | |
Orion | Abraham Rees | circa 1820 | Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown | 1 | Unbound | Disbound hand colored print from "Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature". Copperplate engraving by Milton after a drawing by L. Hebert. | ||
Palomar Observatory Lagoon Nebula Print | Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories | 1961 | Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories | 1 | Unbound | Framed color image taken with the Palomar 200 inch telescope. This image was part of an exhibit at the California Institute of Technology. | ||
![]() | John Flamsteed | 1729 | 1st | 1 | Unbound | |||
![]() | Johann Bayer | 1661 | Johannis Görlini | 2nd | 1 | Unbound | One of five prints purchased through Sworders Auctions. | |
![]() | Johann Bayer | 1661 | Johannis Görlini | 2nd | 1 | Unbound | One of five prints purchased through Sworders Auctions. | |
![]() | Johann Bayer | 1661 | Johannis Görlini | 2nd | 1 | Unbound | ||
![]() | John Bevis | circa 1750 | John Neale | 1st | 1 | Unbound | Minor tears. | |
![]() | John Bevis | circa 1750 | John Neale | 1st | 1 | Unbound | One of five prints purchased through Sworders Auctions. Has a small tear at the bottom. The Bevis atlas is considered to be one of the rarest celestial atlases. | |
![]() | Kornelius Reĭssig | 1829 | 1st | 1 | Unbound | Hand colored. | ||
Rockstroh Hand Colored Celestial Chart Antinous Adler Delphin | Heinrich Rockstroh | 1830 | C.F. Amelang | 1 | Unbound | Disbound chart from Der Gestirnte Himmel. | ||
Rockstroh Hand Colored Celestial Chart Ophiuchus | Heinrich Rockstroh | 1830 | C.F. Amelang | 1 | Unbound | Disbound chart from Der Gestirnte Himmel. | ||
Rockstroh Hand Colored Celestial Chart Pisces | Heinrich Rockstroh | 1830 | C.F. Amelang | 1 | Unbound | Disbound chart from Der Gestirnte Himmel. | ||
Rockstroh Hand Colored Celestial Chart Virgo | Heinrich Rockstroh | 1830 | C.F. Amelang | 1 | Unbound | Disbound chart from Der Gestirnte Himmel. | ||
Six Framed Star Charts from Burritt's Geography of the Heavens 1835 | Elijah H. Burritt | 1835 | Huntington and Savage | 3rd | 6 | Unbound | Six framed charts from the 1835 edition of Burritt's Geography of the Heavens. Probably framed around 1910 to 1920. | |
Six Star Maps by Thomas Letts | Thomas Letts | 1881 | Letts, Son & Co. | 6 | Unbound | Six maps from Letts' Popular Atlas. | ||
![]() | anonymous | circa 1900 | F.A. Brockhaus | 1 | Unbound | Disbound print from the German language encyclopaedia Brockhaus Konversations Lexikon. The constellation overlay is torn. | ||
![]() | anonymous | circa 1900 | F.A. Brockhaus | 1 | Unbound | Disbound print from the German language encyclopaedia Brockhaus Konversations Lexikon. | ||
Three Prints from "Atlas Coelestis in quo Mundus Spectabilis" | Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr | 1742 | Homann's Heirs | 1st | 3 | Unbound | Mounted in a 34 inch x 72 inch frame. Purchased through Simpson Galleries in Houston, TX. Two of the charts depict the northern and southern celestial skies and the third is a map of the Earth. The northern hemisphere print has a one inch tear at the bottom center and is wrinkled. | |
Ursa Major and Ursa Minor | Abraham Rees | circa 1820 | Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown | 1 | Unbound | Disbound hand colored print from "Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature". Copperplate engraving by Milton after a drawing by L. Hebert. |
Biology (1 Title)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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Elements of Zoölogy | Sanborn Tenney | 1875 | Charles Scribner's Sons | 1st | 503 | Cloth |
Chemistry (8 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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An Introduction to the Atomic Theory | Charles Daubeny | 1831 | Oxford University Press | 1st | 147 | Cloth | ||
An Introduction to the Study of Chemistry | Ira Remsen | 1902 | Henry Holt and Company | 6th | 460 | Cloth | ||
General Chemistry | Harry N. Holmes | 1923 | Macmillan and Company | 1st | 3rd printing | 558 | Cloth | |
Meiji Period Japanese Woodblock Chemistry Text in Three Volumes | anonymous | circa 1870 | anonymous | 331 | Paper | |||
On Spectrum Analysis | Henry E. Roscoe | 1870 | Macmillan and Company | 2nd | 404 | Cloth | ||
Organic Chemistry | Ira Remsen | 1894 | D. C. Heath & Company | 3rd | 364 | Cloth | ||
Spectroscopy | E. C. C. Baly | 1918 | Longmans, Green, and Co. | 2nd | 687 | Cloth | ||
The Modern Calorimeter | Walter White | 1928 | The Chemical Catalog Company | 1st | 194 | Cloth |
Classics (3 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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Aristotelis | Aristotle | 1601 | Wechelianis apud Claudium Marnium & haeredes Ioannis Aubri | 815 | Leather | |||
P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum Libri VI | Ovid | 1582 | Basilea ex officina brylingeriana anno | 397 | Hardbound | Perhaps rebound during the 19th century. Some conservation work done to tattered pages. This volume contains three of Ovid's works, the Fasti (the Roman calendar and astronomy), the Tristia, and the Epistulae ex Ponto. | ||
The Iliad of Homer | William Cullen Bryant | 1880 | Houghton Mifflin Company | 1st | 11th impression | 687 | Cloth |
Drama (3 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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Shakespeare's Tragedy of Hamlet | Henry N. Hudson | 1903 | Ginn and Company | 1st | 12th impression | 253 | Cloth | |
Shakespeare's Tragedy of MacBeth | Henry N. Hudson | 1896 | Ginn and Company | 1st | 9th impression | 203 | Cloth | |
Shakespeare's Winter's Tale | Henry N. Hudson | 1894 | Ginn and Company | 1st | 5th impression | 196 | Cloth |
Ephemera (47 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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25 Astronomy Tabacco Cards | anonymous | circa 1916 | John Player and Sons | Unbound | ||||
![]() | anonymous | circa 1946 | Sky Publishing Corporation | 1 | Unbound | |||
Argoli, A. - Ephemerides Exactissimae Caelestium Motuum ad Longitudinem Almae Urbis, et Tychonis Brahe Hypotheses, ad deductas è Coelo accurate observationes ab Anno MDCXLI ad Annum MDCC | Andrea Argoli | 1677 | J.A. Huguetan | 1st | 587 | Vellum | Title page has the bottom right corner cut out. The frontispiece is missing as well as the end papers and flyleafs. | |
Astronomischer Kalender für 1919 | anonymous | 1918 | Carl Gerold's Sohn | 1st | 149 | Quarter Cloth | 149 number pages plus 48 pages for notes. Several advertisements for astronomical instruments are scattered throughout the calendar. | |
Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch für 1858 | Johann Franz Encke | 1855 | Kônigl Academy of Sciences | 1st | 408 | Paper | ||
Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch für 1908 | J. Bauschinger | 1906 | Ferd. Dümmler's Verlagsbuchhandlung | 1st | 620 | Half Cloth | ||
c1907 Postcard Observatory at Washburn College Topeka KS | anonymous | circa 1907 | M. L. Zercher Book & Sta. Co. | Unbound | ||||
Children with Telescope Postcard | anonymous | circa 1909 | anonymous | Unbound | ||||
Ephemerides Ioannis Stadii Leonnovthensis Mathematici, Secvndvm Antvverpiae Longitudem: ab Anno 1554 vsque ad Annum 1606 ; Iam recèns ab Auctore auctae: adiecto quoque Canone Sinuum, vel Semißium rectarum, in circulo subtensarm, eodem Auctore | Johannes Stadius | 1581 | Haeredes Arnoldi Birckmanni | 88 | Quarter Leather | 88 numberered pages. Seminario Vescovile stamp on the title page. Johannes Stadius calculated the planetary positions for this ephemeris using the Copernican model of the solar system. His copy of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus" is currently locaed in the library at the West Point Military Academy. | ||
Etat Du Ciel Pour L'an de Grace 1754 | Alexandre Guy Pingré | 1754 | Durand | 1st | 193 | Cloth | ||
Etat Du Ciel Pour L'an de Grace 1756 | Alexandre Guy Pingré | 1756 | Durand | 1st | 216 | Cloth | ||
Etat Du Ciel Pour L'an de Grace 1757 | Alexandre Guy Pingré | 1757 | Durand | 1st | 216 | Cloth | ||
Evening Amusements - 1804 | William Frend | 1805 | J. Mawman | 4th | 185 | Half Leather | ||
Evening Amusements - 1805 | William Frend | 1805 | J. Mawman | 2nd | 210 | Half Leather | ||
Evening Amusements - 1806 | William Frend | 1806 | J. Mawman | 1st | 281 | Half Leather | ||
Evening Amusements - 1807 | William Frend | 1807 | J. Mawman | 1st | 263 | Half Leather | ||
Evening Amusements - 1808 | William Frend | 1808 | J. Mawman | 1st | 252 | Half Leather | ||
Evening Amusements - 1809 | William Frend | 1809 | J. Mawman | 1st | 236 | Half Leather | ||
Evening Amusements - 1810 | William Frend | 1810 | J. Mawman | 1st | 198 | Half Leather | ||
Evening Amusements - 1811 | William Frend | 1811 | J. Mawman | 1st | 205 | Half Leather | ||
Evening Amusements - 1812 | William Frend | 1812 | J. Mawman | 1st | 223 | Half Leather | ||
Evening Amusements - 1813 | William Frend | 1813 | J. Mawman | 1st | 192 | Half Leather | ||
Evening Amusements - 1814 | William Frend | 1814 | J. Mawman | 1st | 204 | Half Leather | ||
Evening Amusements - 1815 | William Frend | 1815 | J. Mawman | 1st | 188 | Half Leather | ||
Evening Amusements - 1816 | William Frend | 1816 | J. Mawman | 1st | 184 | Half Leather | ||
Evening Amusements - 1817 | William Frend | 1817 | J. Mawman | 1st | 177 | Half Leather | ||
Evening Amusements - 1818 | William Frend | 1818 | J. Mawman | 1st | 206 | Half Leather | ||
Evening Amusements - 1819 | William Frend | 1819 | J. Mawman | 1st | 233 | Half Leather | ||
Evening Amusements - 1820 | William Frend | 1820 | J. Mawman | 1st | 219 | Half Leather | ||
Evening Amusements - 1821 | William Frend | 1821 | J. Mawman | 1st | 223 | Half Leather | ||
Evening Amusements - 1822 | William Frend | 1822 | J. Mawman | 1st | 199 | Half Leather | ||
Lawrence Manufacturing Cancelled Check | Lawrence Manufacturing Company | Old Colony Trust Company | Check made payable to Percival Lowell and A. L. Lowell Trustees. The check was made out in the amount of $666.66 on May 13, 1901. | |||||
Lowell Observatory Observation Circular - Mars - At the opposition of 1915-1916 | Percival Lowell | 1916 | Lowell Observatory | 1st | 1 | Unbound | Report of a new feature. The circular is dated March 30, 1916. | |
Merlinius Anglicus Junior: Or, The Starry Messenger, For the Year of our Redemption, 1758 | Henry Coley | 1757 | R. Reily, for the Company of Stationers | 1st | 29 | Unbound | ||
Modern Wonders - 2 Astronomy Tabacco Cards | anonymous | 1938 | W.A. & A.C. Churchman | Unbound | ||||
Ohio State University Observatory Postcard | circa 1910 | H. G. Zimmerman & Co. | ||||||
Ohio Weslyan University Observatory Postcard | circa 1910 | The New York Cash Store Co. | ||||||
Parker's Ephemeris | George Parker | 1715 | G. Parker | 1st | 72 | Leather | ||
Parkville College Observatory Postcard | anonymous | circa 1908 | The Rotograph Co. | Unbound | ||||
Postcard Crane Observatory, Topeka, Kan. | anonymous | circa 1915 | I. P. C. N. & Co. | Unbound | ||||
Postcard High Rock Observatory Lynn MA | circa 1905 | anonymous | Unbound | |||||
Postcard Pittsburgh PA Allegheny Observatory | circa 1950 | Artvue Post Card Co. | Unbound | |||||
Postcard Topeka KS Washburn Observatory | anonymous | circa 1905 | Hermann Souvenir Post Card Co. | Unbound | ||||
![]() | anonymous | 1905 | The Cincinnati Game Company | Paper | ||||
The Methodist Almanac for the Year of our Lord 1869 | anonymous | 1868 | Hitchcock and Walden | 1st | 46 | Paper | ||
Time's Telescope for 1820 | anonymous | 1820 | Sherwood, Neely, and Jones | 1st | 323 | Half Leather | ||
Vox Stellarum, Or a Loyal Almanack | Francis Moore | 1751 | James Bettenham | 1st | 354 | Quarter Leather | Almanacs for 1751 through 1758 bound in one volume. |
Evolution (5 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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American Addresses | Thomas Henry Huxley | 1893 | D. Appleton & Co. | 1st | 7th impression | 164 | Cloth | |
Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature | Thomas Henry Huxley | 1863 | D. Appleton & Co. | 1st | 184 | Cloth | Several torn pages including the title page. Fixed with wheat paste. | |
On the Origin of Species | Thomas Henry Huxley | 1883 | D. Appleton & Co. | 150 | Cloth | |||
The Descent of Man | Charles Darwin | 1875 | D. Appleton & Co. | 2nd | 688 | Cloth | ||
The Origin of Species | Charles Darwin | 1873 | D. Appleton & Co. | 6th | 458 | Cloth |
Fiction (36 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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A History of English Literature | William Francis Collier | 1862 | T. Nelson and Sons | 1st | 538 | Cloth | ||
Barrington | Charles Lever | 1872 | Chapman & Hall | 411 | Half Leather | |||
Bleak House | Charles Dickens | circa 1910 | P. F. Collier and Son | 977 | Cloth | |||
Grandfather Tales | Richard Chase | 1948 | Houghton Mifflin Company | 1st | 240 | Cloth | ||
Henry Esmond. Catherine Denis Duval and Lovel the Widower | William Makepeace Thackeray | circa 1900 | Frank F. Lovell and Company | 831 | Cloth | |||
Jack Hinton, The Guardsman | Charles Lever | 1873 | Chapman & Hall | 396 | Half Leather | |||
Les Miserables | Victor Hugo | 1900 | A. L. Burt Company, Publishers | 749 | Cloth | |||
Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens | circa 1910 | P. F. Collier and Son | 932 | Cloth | |||
Ninety-Three | Victor Hugo | 1888 | Thomas Y. Crowell Company | 472 | Cloth | |||
Oliver Twist / A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | circa 1890 | Chapman & Hall | 565 | Half Leather | Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities bound in one volume. Late nineteenth century printing. | ||
One of Them | Charles Lever | 1873 | Chapman & Hall | 471 | Half Leather | |||
Our Charley and What to Do With Him | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1858 | Phillips, Sampson & Company | 1st | 117 | Cloth | It is possible that the book belonged to Percival Lowell. The book is inscribed: "Percival Lowell from Nanna Xmas 1862". | |
Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | 1865 | Chapman & Hall | 1st | 306 | Leather | Bound from the original serial parts. | |
Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | circa 1910 | P. F. Collier and Son | 940 | Cloth | |||
Roundabout Papers | William Makepeace Thackeray | circa 1900 | Frank F. Lovell and Company | 815 | Cloth | |||
Sketches by "Boz" | Charles Dickens | circa 1910 | P. F. Collier and Son | 531 | Cloth | |||
The Adventures of Philip on His Way Through the World | William Makepeace Thackeray | circa 1900 | Frank F. Lovell and Company | 826 | Cloth | |||
The Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh | William Makepeace Thackeray | circa 1900 | Frank F. Lovell and Company | 717 | Cloth | |||
The Confessions of Con. Cregan | Charles Lever | circa 1872 | George Routledge & Sons | 4th | 305 | Half Leather | ||
The Daltons | Charles Lever | 1872 | Chapman & Hall | 698 | Half Leather | |||
The Dodd Family Abroad | Charles Lever | 1872 | Chapman & Hall | 565 | Half Leather | |||
The History of Pendennis. His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy. | William Makepeace Thackeray | circa 1900 | Frank F. Lovell and Company | 820 | Cloth | |||
The Knight of Gwyenne | Charles Lever | 1872 | Chapman & Hall | 618 | Half Leather | |||
The Last Days of Pompeii | Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton | 1850 | A. L. Burt, Publisher | 2nd | 425 | Half Leather | Actually printed much later. Probably printed after 1890. A. L. Burt began publishing in 1883. | |
The Martins of Cro'Martin | Charles Lever | 1873 | Chapman & Hall | 690 | Half Leather | |||
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon. Great Hoggarty Diamond. Sketches and Travels in London. Character Sketches. Men's Wives. | William Makepeace Thackeray | circa 1900 | Frank F. Lovell and Company | 826 | Cloth | |||
The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Charles Dickens | 1870 | Chapman & Hall | 1st | 190 | Paper | Original serial parts. This was Dickens' last novel which was never completed before his death. | |
The Newcombes, Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family | William Makepeace Thackeray | circa 1900 | Frank F. Lovell and Company | 820 | Cloth | |||
The O'Donoghue | Charles Lever | 1872 | Chapman & Hall | 410 | Half Leather | |||
The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; The Irish Sketch Book: and Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo | William Makepeace Thackeray | circa 1900 | Frank F. Lovell and Company | 821 | Cloth | |||
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club | Charles Dickens | circa 1890 | Chapman & Hall | 609 | Half Leather | Late nineteenth century printing. | ||
The Virginians | William Makepeace Thackeray | circa 1900 | Frank F. Lovell and Company | 798 | Cloth | |||
Toilers of the Sea | Victor Hugo | circa 1910 | Estes and Lauriat | 525 | Cloth | Limited edition. Number 215 out of 1000. In two volumes. | ||
Tom Burke of "Ours." | Charles Lever | 1873 | Chapman & Hall | 666 | Half Leather | |||
Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero | William Makepeace Thackeray | circa 1900 | Frank F. Lovell and Company | 821 | Cloth | |||
Wolfert's Roost and Other Papers, Now First Collected | Washington Irving | 1859 | G. P Putnam | 383 | Cloth |
General Knowledge (2 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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Curiosiora et Selectiora Variarum Scientiarum Miscellanea | P. Martino Szent-Jvany | 1689 | Typis Academicia, Tyrnaviae | 1st | 860 | Vellum | ||
The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure | anonymous | 1786 | William Bent | 1st | 768 | Half Leather | Periodical. Volumes 78-79. Contains essays on astronomy, physics chemistry biology, poetry, mathematics, architecture, music, news, history, philosophy. |
Geography (8 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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First Lessons in Geography and Astronomy, with Seven Plain Maps and a View of the Solar System | J. A. Cummings | 1818 | Cummings and Hillard | 1st | 83 | Paper | Homemade dust jacket made with a wrapper from a ream of rag paper with the following printed on it "Pot, No. 1., (one ream.) John Savels, Manufacturer, Gardiner -- Maine". The top one inch of the spine is torn. Some water staining to the pages. Previous owners names are inscribed on the cover and flyleaf. | |
Geography Delineated Forth in Two Bookes | Nathanael Carpenter | 1625 | John Lichfield and William Turner | 1st | 560 | Leather | ||
Geography Made Easy | Jedidiah Morse | 1811 | Thomas & Andrews | 14th | 2nd printing | 363 | Leather | Jedidiah was the farther of Sameul Morse, inventor of the Morse Code. |
La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino | Claudius Ptolemaeus | 1574 | Appresso Giordano Ziletti | 3rd | 350 | Vellum | This is the third edition of the Italian translation by Girolamo Ruscelli which was first printed by Vincenzo Valgrisi in Venice, 1561. This edition is revised and corrected by Giovanni Malombra. The engraved maps, which are enlarged copies of Giacomo Gastaldi's maps in his Italian edition of Venice, 1548, are generally the same in the Venice 1561, 1562 (Latin), and 1564 editions printed in Venice. Sixty-three of the maps are printed from the same plates as the 1561 edition. The exceptions are the Ptolemaic world map, "Tavola prima universale antica, di tutta la terra conosciura fin' a' tempi di Tolomeo," which is on a revised conical projection, and the additional map "Territorio di Roma duodecima tavola nuova d'Europa" which is new to this edition. The atlas contains 27 ptolemaic maps and 38 new maps. | |
Manual of Geography Combined With History and Astronomy | James Monteith | 1885 | A. S. Barnes and Company | 123 | Quarter Leather | |||
Noto: an Unexplored Corner of Japan | Percival Lowell | 1891 | Houghton Mifflin Company | 1st | 261 | Cloth | ||
The Soul of the Far East | Percival Lowell | 1888 | Houghton Mifflin Company | 1st | 226 | Cloth | ||
Voyage en Sibérie, fait par Ordre du Roi en 1761 | Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche | 1769 | Marc Michel Rey | 2nd | 955 | Leather | Three volumes. Volume I was printed in 1769, volume II was printed in 1770, and volume III was printed in 1771. These volumes describe an expedition to Siberia to observe the transit of Venus in 1761. Formerly owned by Gouverneur Morris, who was the author of the preamble to the US Constitution. |
Geology (2 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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A Compend of Geology | Joseph Le Conte | 1898 | American Book Company | 2nd | 426 | Cloth | ||
Fourteen Weeks in Popular Geology | Joel Dorman Steele | 1877 | A. S. Barnes and Company | 2nd | 280 | Cloth |
Historical Novels (1 Title)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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Percival's Planet A Novel | Michael Byers | 2010 | Henry Holt and Company | 1st | 414 | Cloth |
History (2 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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De Dis Syris Syntagmata II | Joannis Seldeni | 1672 | Laurentii Sigismundi Corneri | 1st | 696 | Half Leather | ||
The Lowells and Their Seven Worlds | Ferris Greenslet | 1946 | Houghton Mifflin Company | 1st | 442 | Cloth |
Horology (7 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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Practical Benchwork for Horologists | Louis Levin | 1950 | Louis Levin & Son, Inc. | 8th | 381 | Cloth | ||
Practical Clock Repairing | Donald de Carle | 1951 | N. A. G. Press | 244 | Cloth | |||
Practical Watch Repairing | Donald de Carle | 1971 | N. A. G. Press | 3rd | 319 | Cloth | ||
Scientific Timing | Charles Purdom | 1947 | The Roberts Publishing Co. | 144 | Cloth | |||
Time Telling Through the Ages | Harry C. Brearley | 1919 | Doubleday, Page & Company | 294 | Cloth | |||
Watch and Clock Makers Handbook | F. J. Britten | 1938 | Chemical Publishing Company Inc. | 14th | 547 | Cloth | ||
Watch Repairing | F. J. Garrard | 1950 | The Technical Press Ltd. | 17th impression | 214 | Cloth |
Mathematics (5 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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Elements of Analytical Geometry | Charles Davies | 1848 | A. S. Barnes and Company | 11th | 352 | Cloth | ||
Elements of Geometry: Containing The First Six Books of Euclid | John Playfair | 1839 | W. E. Dean | 318 | Leather | Front cover missing, and the rear cover is detached. | ||
Graphical Methods | Carl David Tolmé Runge | 1912 | Columbia University Press | 1st | 148 | Half Leather | ||
Mathematical Papers of the Late George Green | N. M Ferrers | 1903 | Librairie Scientifique A. Hermann | 2nd | 336 | Cloth | ||
Sanpo Tenzan Tebikigusa | anonymous | circa 1845 | anonymous | 59 | Paper | Edo period Japanese woodblock print book. |
Medical (1 Title)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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The Refraction of the Eye | Gustavus Hartridge | 1902 | P. Blakiston's Son & Company | 11th | 271 | Cloth |
Meteorology (1 Title)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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L'Atmosphere: Météorologie Populaire | Camille Flammarion | 1888 | Librairie Hachette Et C | 4th | 808 | Half Leather | Edition where Flammarion's astronomer wood cutting first appears (page 163). |
Natural Philosophy (7 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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A Plain Elementary and Practical System of Natural Experimental Philosophy; Including Astronomy and Chronology | Rev. John Ewing | 1809 | Hopkins and Earle | 1st | 538 | Leather | 22 plates at the end of the book. This was a posthumously published set of lectures. This book has been rebacked with new endpapers and flyleafs added. | |
An Introduction to Natural Philosophy | Denison Olmsted | 1832 | Hezekiah Howe & Co. | 1st | 352 | Leather | Volume two of a two volume set. Front cover hanging by threads. | |
![]() | anonymous | 1808 | D. & G. Bruce, for J. Osborn, Bookseller | 1st | 272 | Quarter Leather | ||
Lessons on Natural Philosophy, for Children | Rev. T. Wilson | circa 1845 | Darton and Clark | 182 | Cloth | Uranus is referred to as Herschel. No mention of Neptune. | ||
Library of Useful Knowledge | anonymous | 1834 | Baldwin and Cradock | 561 | Half Leather | |||
Rudiments of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy | Denison Olmsted | 1864 | Collins & Brother | 2nd | 3rd printing | 302 | Quarter Leather | One inch of spine missing along top and bottom. Tape applied to the spine. |
The Gallery of Nature and Art | Rev. Edward Polehampton | 1821 | R. N. Rose | 5th | 527 | Leather |
Navigation (7 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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A Treatise on Practical Astronomy as Applied to Geodesy and Navigation | C. L. Doolittle | 1885 | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | 1st | 642 | Cloth | ||
Navigation and Nautical Astronomy | Benjamin Dutton | 1943 | United States Naval Institute | 8th | 568 | Cloth | ||
Stereopix The Principles of Celestial Navigation Explained by Means of Three-Diensional Pictures | Wm. H. Burton, Jr. | 1943 | Addison Wesley | 1st | 27 | Paper | Has a pair of 3-D glasses included. The author was the curator of the Hayden Planetarium. | |
The American Practical Navigator | Nathaniel Bowditch | 1918 | United States Hydrographic Office | 2nd | 949 | Cloth | ||
The Illustrated Longitude | Dava Sobel | 1998 | Walker & Company | 1st | 4th printing | 216 | Cloth | |
The Mariner's New Daily Assistant | James Griffin | 1844 | Blanchford and Imray | 1st | 214 | Leather | ||
The Practical Navigator | John Hamilton Moore | 1781 | B. Law | 6th | 302 | Leather |
Non-Fiction (2 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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Alone | Richard E. Byrd | 1938 | G. P. Putnam's Sons | 1st | 296 | Cloth | Signed. From my Father's library. | |
Two Years with the Chinese Communists | William Band | 1948 | Yale University Press | 1st | 347 | Cloth | Dust jacket present. William Band was a faculty member of the Physics Department at Washington State University during my time there as a graduate student. |
Philosophy (2 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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Dick's Works | Rev. Thomas Dick | 1852 | A. C. Goodman & Co. | 911 | Leather | |||
First Principles | Herbert Spencer | 1896 | D. Appleton & Co. | 4th | 602 | Half Leather |
Photography (1 Title)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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Solutions For Your Photographic Problems | J. Victor Mansfield | 1942 | The Mansfield Photo Research Institute | 2nd | 128 | Cloth | This book contains chemical solutions for various films. I used one of the direct positive solutions from this book to produce backup film records of high speed spectra while working in the Shock Dynamics Laboratory at Washington State University. |
Physics (46 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | 1988 | Bantam Books | 1st | 198 | Paper | ||
An Elementary Treatment of the Theory of Spinning Tops and Gyroscopic Motion | Harold Crabtree | 1967 | Chelsea Publishing Company | 3rd | 193 | Cloth | ||
An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Heat Conduction | L. R. Ingersoll | 1913 | Ginn and Company | 1st | 171 | Cloth | ||
Analytical Emission Spectroscopy | József Mika | 1974 | Crane, Russak & Company, Inc. | 1st | 527 | Casewrap | ||
Atomic Spectra and Atomic Structure | Gerhard Herzberg | 1944 | Dover | 257 | Cloth | |||
Classical Mechanics | Herbert Goldstein | 1953 | Addison Wesley | 1st | 3rd printing | 399 | Cloth | |
De Magnete | William Gilbert | 1958 | Dover | 368 | Paper | |||
Einstein's Theory of Relativity | Max Born | 1924 | Methuen & Co., LTD. | 3rd | 293 | Cloth | Translated by Henry L. Brose. | |
Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism | Silvanus P. Thompson | 1895 | Macmillan and Company | 14th | 628 | Cloth | ||
Experiment and Theory in Physics | Max Born | 1944 | Cambridge University Press | 1st | First UK edition. | 44 | Paper | |
Experimental Spectroscopy | Ralph A. Sawyer | 1944 | Prentice Hall, Inc. | 1st | 323 | Cloth | ||
Fundamentals of Physical Optics | Francis Jenkins | 1937 | McGraw-Hill Book Company | 1st | 6th impression | 457 | Cloth | |
Introduction to Atomic Spectra | Harvey Elliott White | 1934 | McGraw-Hill Book Company | 1st | 6th impression | 457 | Cloth | |
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics | Linus Pauling | 1935 | McGraw-Hill Book Company | 1st | 8th impression | 468 | Cloth | |
Les Rayons X | Maurice de Broglie | 1922 | Journal de Physique | 1st | 164 | Cloth | ||
Light: Principles and Experiments | George S. Monk | 1937 | McGraw-Hill Book Company | 1st | 477 | Cloth | ||
Mathematical and Physical Papers - Volume 1 | Sir William Thomson | 1882 | Cambridge University Press | 1st | 558 | Cloth | ||
Mathematical and Physical Papers - Volume 2 | Sir William Thomson | 1884 | Cambridge University Press | 1st | 407 | Cloth | ||
Mathematical and Physical Papers - Volume 3 | Sir William Thomson | 1890 | Cambridge University Press | 1st | 529 | Cloth | ||
Mathematical and Physical Papers - Volume 4 | Sir William Thomson | 1910 | Cambridge University Press | 1st | 563 | Cloth | ||
Mathematical and Physical Papers - Volume 5 | Sir William Thomson | 1911 | Cambridge University Press | 1st | 602 | Cloth | ||
Mathematical and Physical Papers - Volume 6 | Sir William Thomson | 1911 | Cambridge University Press | 1st | 378 | Cloth | ||
Mechanics | Lev Davidovich Landau | 1960 | Addison Wesley | 2nd | 165 | Cloth | Volume one of the "Course in Theoretical Physics". First English translation. Co-authored by E. M. Lifshitz. | |
Meiji Period Science (Optices, Electricity and Magnetism) | anonymous | circa 1900 | anonymous | 62 | Paper | |||
Modern Physics | Charles E Dull | 1934 | Henry Holt and Company | 5th | 789 | Cloth | ||
Modern Views of Electricity | Oliver J. Lodge | 1892 | Macmillan and Company | 2nd | 480 | Cloth | Former University of Kansas Library copy | |
My Life & My Views | Max Born | 1968 | Charles Scribner's Sons | 2nd | 216 | Cloth | ||
On The Shoulders of Giants | Stephen Hawking (editor) | 2002 | Running Press | 1st | 1st Impression | 1264 | Cloth | Dust jacket present. The works of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and Einstein. |
Photographed Spectra | J. Rand Capron | 1877 | E. & F. N. Spon | 1st | 84 | Cloth | Has two tipped in silver prints, on an extra plate, showing the spectrum of the Sun compared to a reference spectrum. 136 photographs on 66 plates. | |
Practical Spectroscopy | George R. Harrison | 1948 | Prentice Hall, Inc. | 5th printing | 605 | Cloth | ||
Principles of Mechanics | John Lighton Synge | 1949 | McGraw-Hill Book Company | 2nd | 530 | Cloth | ||
Robert Boyle's Experiments in Pneumatics | James Bryant Conant | 1955 | Harvard University Press | 2nd | 2nd printing | 70 | Paper | |
Spectrum Analysis in its Application to Terrestrial Substances, and the Physical Constitution of the Heavenly Bodies | Dr. H. Schellen | 1872 | D. Appleton & Co. | 1st | 1st American edition | 455 | Cloth | Second copy. |
The Becquerel Rays and the Properties of Radium | R. J. Strutt | 1906 | Edward Arnold | 2nd | 215 | Cloth | ||
The Contributions of Faraday and Maxwell to Electrical Science | R. A. R. Tricker | 1966 | Pergamon Press | 1st | 289 | Paper | ||
The Early Development of the Concepts of Temperature and Heat | Duane Roller | 1950 | Harvard University Press | 1st | 105 | Paper | ||
The Electric Life of Michael Faraday | Alan Hirshfeld | 2006 | Walker & Company | 1st | 258 | Cloth | Dust jacket present. Inscribed by the author. | |
The Fabric of the Cosmos | Brian Greene | 2004 | Knopf | 1st | 2nd printing | 569 | Quarter Cloth | |
The God Effect | Brian Clegg | 2006 | St. Marten's Press | 1st | 269 | Cloth | ||
The Illustrated A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | 1996 | Bantam Books | 2nd | 5th impression | 248 | Cloth | Dust jacket present. First volume of the deluxe set. |
The Mathematical Theory of Electricity & Magnetism | Sir James H. Jeans | 1960 | Cambridge University Press | 5th | 652 | Paper | ||
The Mathematical Theory of Huygens' Principle | Bevan B. Baker | 1939 | Oxford at the Clarendon Press | 1st | 155 | Cloth | ||
The Nature of Thermodynamics | P. W. Bridgman | 1941 | Harvard University Press | 2nd | 229 | Cloth | ||
The Restless Universe | Max Born | 1951 | Dover | 2nd | 315 | Paper | ||
The Structure of Line Spectra | Linus Pauling | 1930 | McGraw-Hill Book Company | 1st | 263 | Cloth | ||
The Universe in a Nutshell | Stephen Hawking | 2001 | Bantam Books | 1st | 9th impression | 216 | Cloth | Dust jacket present. Second volume of the deluxe set. |
Physics History (7 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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Isaac Newton's Scientific Method | William L. Harper | 2011 | Oxford University Press | 1st | 424 | Cloth | ||
Newton's Principia for the Common Reader | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | 1995 | Oxford University Press | 1st | 2 | 593 | Cloth | |
Newton's Principia The Central Argument | Dana Densmore | 2003 | Green Lion Press | 3rd | 525 | Paper | ||
Out of the Shadows: Contributions of Twentieth-Century Women to Physics | Nina Byers (editor) | 2006 | Cambridge University Press | 1st | 2 | 471 | Casewrap | |
Reading the Principia | Niccolò Guicciardini | 1999 | Cambridge University Press | 1st | 285 | Cloth | Bookseller's writing on front flyleaf. | |
The Key to Newton's Dynamics | J. Bruce Brackenridge | 1995 | University of California Press | 1st | 299 | Paper | ||
The Rise of the New Physics (2 volumes) | A. D'ambro | 1951 | Dover | 2nd | 982 | Paper |
Poetry (10 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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Ballads for Sale | Amy Lowell | 1927 | Houghton Mifflin Company | 1st | 311 | Cloth | ||
Bitter-Sweet | J. G. Holland | 1859 | Charles Scribner | 1st | 2 impression | 220 | Cloth | |
Can Grande's Castle | Amy Lowell | 1918 | The MacMillan Company | 1st | 232 | Quarter Cloth | ||
East Wind | Amy Lowell | 1926 | Houghton Mifflin Company | 1st | 240 | Quarter Cloth | ||
M. Manili Astronomicon | Marcus Manlius | 1599 | apud Christophorum Raphelengium | 510 | Vellum | The Astronomicon, is a Latin didactic poem about celestial phenomena, written in hexameters and divided into five books. The Astronomica was originally written c. AD 30 - 40 by a Roman poet whose name was likely Marcus Manilius. | ||
Odes Upon Cash, Corn and Catholics and Other Matters | Thomas Moore | 1828 | Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green | 1st | 183 | Quarter Cloth | Signed by John Herschel. Binding taped, and pages loose. Has John Herschel's library stamp. | |
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed | Amy Lowell | 1914 | The MacMillan Company | 1st | 246 | Quarter Cloth | Compliments of the author slip paper attached to inside cover. Formerly owned by Elizabeth Putnam (Amy Lowell's older sister). | |
The Poems of William Cowper, Esq. | William Cowper | 1849 | Clark, Austin & Co. | 491 | Cloth | |||
The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelly | Percy Bysshe Shelly | 1852 | Phillips, Sampson & Company | 1st | 1st American Edition | 784 | Cloth | |
What's Oclock | Amy Lowell | 1925 | Houghton Mifflin Company | 1st | 240 | Quarter Cloth | Amy Lowell was Percival Lowell's sister. |
Religion (6 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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Discourses on the Christian Revelation Viewed in Connexion with the Modern Astronomy | Rev. Thomas Chalmers | 1819 | E. P. Walton | 3rd | 194 | Leather | Water stain to the front cover. Bottom quarter of the front flyleaf missing. | |
Mid Edo Period Japanese Mythology | anonymous | circa 1690 | anonymous | 27 | Paper | |||
Occult Japan or the Way of the Gods | Percival Lowell | 1895 | Houghton Mifflin Company | 2nd | 379 | Cloth | ||
Ojoyoshu (ge) | Genshin | circa 1850 | anonymous | 61 | Paper | Late Edo period book about Buddhism. | ||
Rays of Starlight: Being Conversations with the Young Upon the Wonders of the Sky | L. T. | circa 1900 | The London Gospel Tract Depot | 141 | Cloth | Children's book. Front board is warped. | ||
The Ball and Hoop | anonymous | 1836 | American Sunday-School Union | 1st | 15 | Cloth | A religious book which discusses the planet Saturn. |
Satire (1 Title)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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Christmas Story | H. L. Mencken | 1946 | Alfred A. Knopf | 1st | 2nd printing | 31 | Cloth | Illustrated by Bill Crawford. Dust jacket has a tear about 1.5 inches long through the R in "Christmas. Book came from my Father's library. Reprint of the first edition. |
Science (30 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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A Life of Discovery | James Hamilton | 2002 | Random House | 1st | 465 | Cloth | First American edition. | |
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution | R. B. Taney | 1857 | United States House of Representatives | 1st | 467 | Cloth | ||
Aristotle's Physics | Aristotle | 1980 | The Peripatetic Press | 386 | Paper | |||
Beautiful Butterflies | J. Moucha | 1963 | Spring Books | 1st | 3rd impression | 130 | Cloth | |
Confessions of an Alien Hunter | Seth Shostak | 2009 | National Geographic Society | 1st | 309 | Cloth | ||
Der königl. Academie der Wissenschaften in Paris physische Abhandlungen | Wolf Balth Adolph von Steinwehr | 1749 | Berlegts Johann Jacob Korn | 902 | Leather | |||
Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics | Michael Faraday | 1991 | Taylor & Francis | 1st | 496 | Cloth | ||
Familiar Lectures On Scientific Subjects | Sir John F. W. Herschel | 1867 | Alexander Strahan, Publisher | 2nd | 507 | Cloth | ||
Histoire de L`Academie Royale des Sciences | anonymous | 1732 | de L`Imprimerie Royale | 1st | 511 | Leather | ||
Institutiones physicae, quas compendio dedit Adamus Tomtsányi in regia Scientiarum Universitate Pest ... Astronomiam et Geographiam Physicam | Adamus Tomtsanyi | 1824 | Joannis Thomae Trattner | 2nd | 168 | Quarter Leather | Volume 3. Latin text. | |
Japanese Science Reference - Study Book | anonymous | circa 1870 | anonymous | 120 | Paper | Meiji period woodblock print book on science with about 40 illustrations. | ||
Le Spectacle de la Nature | Noël-Antoine Pluche | 1747 | la Veuve Estienne & Fils | 2nd | 596 | Leather | Boards loose. | |
Le Spectacle de la Nature | Noël-Antoine Pluche | 1749 | Chez la Veuve Estienne & Fils | 599 | Leather | |||
Maki No Yon | anonymous | circa 1875 | anonymous | 70 | Paper | Meiji era Japanese woodblock print text book. Volume 4 of Shogaku Tokuhon (The Elementary Reader). | ||
Memorie di Matematica e di Fisica Della Società Italiana | anonymous | 1846 | Società Italiana delle Scienze | 390 | Paper | Spine missing. Volume 23. Has John Herschel's library stamp. | ||
Menlo Park Reminiscences - Volume 1 | Francis Jehl | 1937 | Edison Institute | 2nd | 430 | Paper | ||
Menlo Park Reminiscences - Volume 2 | Francis Jehl | 1938 | Edison Institute | 1st | 475 | Paper | ||
Menlo Park Reminiscences - Volume 3 | Francis Jehl | 1941 | Edison Institute | 1st | 251 | Paper | ||
Meteors, Aerolites, Storms, and Atmospheric Phenomena | William Lackland | 1874 | Scribner, Armstrong, & Co. | 1st | 4th impression | 324 | Cloth | "From the French of Zurcher and Margolle". In mint condition. |
Micrographia | Robert Hooke | 1961 | Dover | 273 | Paper | |||
New Pathways in Science | Arthur Stanley Eddington | 1935 | The MacMillan Company | 1st | 333 | Cloth | ||
Newton's Tyranny | David Clark | 2001 | W. H. Freeman and Company | 170 | Paper | |||
Popular Cyclopaedia Of Natural Science. Mechanical Philosophy Horology and Astronomy | William B. Carpenter | 1857 | Henry G. Bohn | 579 | Leather | |||
Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages | Marshall Clagett | 1959 | The University of Wisconsin Press | 1st | 711 | Cloth | ||
Spectacle de la Nature: Or Nature Display'd | John Baptist de Freval | 1740 | 368 | Leather | ||||
The Horses of the Sun | James Crowther | circa 1886 | Sunday School Union | 280 | Cloth | |||
The Perennial Calendar | T. Forster | 1824 | Harding, Mavor, and Lepard | 1st | 804 | Half Leather | ||
The Wilderness of Worlds | George W. Morehouse | 1898 | Peter Eckler | 1st | 246 | Cloth | Astronomy and Biological Evolution. | |
Time Lord | Clark Blaise | 2000 | Pantheon Books | 1st | 256 | Cloth | ||
Views of Nature | Alexander Von. Humbolt | 1869 | Bell & Dadly | 452 | Half Leather | English translation. |
Science Fiction (1 Title)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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To Mars via the Moon | Mark Wicks | 1911 | J. B. Lippincott Company | 1st | 328 | Cloth |
Science History (1 Title)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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![]() | Martha J. Bailey | 1994 | ABC-CLIO, Inc. | 1st | 463 | Cloth |
Space Flight (3 Titles)
Title | Author | Printing Year | Publisher | Edition | Impression | Pages | Cover | Notes |
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Across the Space Frontier | Cornelius Ryan | 1952 | Viking Press | 1st | 147 | Cloth | Dust jacket present. Contributions by Wernher von Braun, and Fred Whipple. | |
Footprints on the Moon | John Barbour | 1969 | The Associated Press | 1st | 214 | Cloth | Inscribed by John Barbour. | |
Lost Moon | Jim Lovell | 1994 | Houghton Mifflin Company | 1st | 5th printing | 378 | Quarter Cloth |